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...lesson we should have learned with 9/11 is that there may have been a time in our history when we could withdraw behind our borders and be safe and secure here at home. That day passed on 9/11. When we saw the damage that a handful of men could do -- trained in Afghanistan in the remote training camps of Afghanistan, aided and abetted -- a planning cell in Hamburg, Germany, and end up here killing 3,000 Americans that morning, and when we think of the ultimate threat of deadlier weapons than they had that day, the idea that...
...Olmert's management of the Lebanon War continues to be intensely criticized. The main plank of his election campaign - the promise to withdraw roughly one third of West Bank settlers and the consolidation of the rest behind an expanded security barrier - has been put in the deep freeze by the crises in Lebanon and Gaza. Questions have arisen about the propriety of a real estate deal he made years ago. And he's generating further controversy by seeking to bolster his shaky ruling coalition through courting a far-right political faction leader, Avigdor Lieberman, who has called for the forced...
Except that the acclaimed veterans don't want to remember. The hallowed are also the haunted, their nightmares contaminated for decades with the faces of dead comrades. They withdraw into themselves, refuse to speak about the war. They hide their medals as evidence of their crime--that they survived when others didn't. Or did they? Their war experiences make them, in a way, the living dead...
...ready (the Kurds, the Saudis, the Turks, the Jordanians, etc.) who fear the jihadis as much as we do and potential allies (the Baathists and the Sunni tribal leaders) who want to rule their own piece of Iraq and also fear and despise the jihadis. As we gradually withdraw, we and others could provide Baathists the wherewithal to crush the terrorists. Without a large U.S. military presence, they probably would do a better...
...Brownsberger’s answer with “ditto.” Only on the Iraq war and abortion did the candidates differ. Firenze felt that it would be a “bad idea”—and unconstitutional—for the governor to withdraw the state’s National Guard from Iraq. But Brownsberger said, “I support our troops, and think they should come home.” He said the state needs the guard here to protect local gas reserves and to help in the event of a natural...