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...that's exactly what they want. When they send a suicide bomber, it has a dual purpose. To kill Israelis, and also to draw the harshest possible response because it helps them politically. That was the way Hizbollah fought their war in Lebanon. Now, the radical groups have provoked Sharon into a serious escalation that's causing him political and diplomatic problems. Until now, Sharon's strategy had simply been an intensified version of the things Barak had done. But the air strikes mark a serious departure...
...most chilling dimension of Friday's violence that killed at least 16 Israelis and Palestinians and wounded more than 100 is that it came as no surprise. First a terrorist attack by a Hamas suicide bomber killed seven Israelis at a shopping mall in Netanya; then at least nine Palestinians were killed when Israel retaliated by, for the first time in the current conflict, using F-16 fighters to bomb Palestinian targets on the West Bank. Save for the times, places, weapons and targets, the attacks were almost predictable. And while the Israeli government blames the Palestinian Authority...
...Then, one week ago, a little problem reared its head: The FBI, acting as the government prosecution in the case against Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, had failed to produce some 3,100 documents to McVeigh?s defense team...
...There are other, extraneous factors at work, too - $580 million in unpaid American dues to the U.N. is still locked up in Congress despite an agreement last year to pay up. And the impending execution of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh once again highlights a moral schism between the U.S. and its European allies over capital punishment - despite the fact that some 70 percent of Americans believe in the death penalty, it is anathema in Europe. In fact, his record as Texas governor made the death penalty one of the primary sources of disapproval of President Bush in European public...
...ICBMs are essentially a weapon of the Cold War, developed in the knowledge that nuclear devices carried by bomber planes were vulnerable to being shot down. Nuclear tipped rockets fired into space, whose warheads could be more-or-less accurately targeted upon reentry gave both Washington and Moscow the means to deliver an almost instantaneous retaliation for a nuclear strike by an enemy on a different continent. Their development and maintenance cost billions of dollars and they carried a return address, but that didn?t matter in the Cold War calculation - ICBM?s were there to maintain a balance...