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...father - now swore his fealty to Bush the Younger on David Letterman. We put flags on our video graphics, our covers and our lapels. TV networks accepted an unprecedented administration request that they limit their airing of al-Qaeda videotapes. Fox turned over an hour of prime-time (albeit by bumping the very low-rated "Pasadena") for a special terrorism episode of "America's Most Wanted." A consortium of media groups even held off indefinitely on reporting the results of a study of the controversial 2000 presidential vote in Florida, which threatened to perhaps undermine the president's legitimacy. (Investigating...
Thus, if the United States were determined to do so, it could entirely eliminate its dependence on oil from the Persian Gulf, albeit at the expense of making other net importers of petroleum—like France, Germany, Japan and South Korea—more dependent on Persian Gulf oil. Of course, saying that the U.S. can do this and that the U.S. should do this are two different things. While it would certainly be preferable not to have to depend on such a volatile region for a vital part of our economic livelihood, there’s the unsettling...
...Members of the House and Senate leadership have cars, drivers and safe houses to go to (albeit minus spouses) in emergencies. But everyone else is on their own, which is why the rank and file suffer from White House envy. Every time one congressman hears that Vice President Dick Cheney is off in a secure location, he fumes, "What are we, chopped liver...
...just anti-abortion terrorists that the U.S. government harbors. Throughout America there are hundreds of militias in training for an apocalyptic war against the Federal government, or for a war that will “cleanse” America of its racial diversity. These groups have plans, albeit amorphous ones, to direct violence against civilians—thus, they are terrorists. Yet they are tolerated because the American justice system says that a person becomes a criminal only after committing a crime. Some people will argue that the U.S. government couldn’t possibly prevent all these groups from...
Just as I used to fear mechanical failure of an airplane, because I knew it to be a real, credible, albeit infinitesimal threat, I might now add the fear of terrorism to the credible, albeit infinitesimal, fears I face every day. But just as I am 1000 times more likely to die on the way to the airport than I am to die on an airplane, the chances of being directly affected by terror is also infinitesimally small, no matter how much psychic space is taken to fret about the possibility of incidents...