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Within hours of the start of Sunday’s bombing attacks in Afghanistan, the FBI asked all law enforcement agencies to go their highest state of alert. And as fighter jets and bombers continue to streak through the skies over Afghanistan, Americans are anxiously peeking over their shoulders and reassessing their own security...
That admission has left America jittery: A deranged man on an American Airlines flight led to a emergency landing and fighter escort earlier this week; suspicious passengers at Logan Airport have forced multiple planes to return to the gate; bomb scares have caused evacuations around the country on a daily basis; even military surplus stores are struggling to stock enough outdated and ineffective gas masks...
Confused people and moral relativists tell us that one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter. But there should be no ambiguity regarding the term. A terrorist is anyone who uses violence to target civilians. If freedom fighters target civilians then they are terrorists. Social action groups that also engage in acts of violence against civilians are terrorists as well. Hamas, for example, has offered many humanitarian services in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Nonetheless, it is responsible for dozens of suicide bombings, which makes it a terrorist group despite its large social...
...selling posters of Osama bin Laden. My friend bought one, and we were both struck by the expression on Osama's face. It was ascetic and yet sensual, as he floated above an Afghan mountain range where an eagle was ripping its claws into an American F-16 jet fighter as if it was some hapless pigeon...
...learned that the anti-American mob had torched several movie theaters, which have been showing "Desperado" and "Gladiator." They also burned down the U.N. offices because-well, who knows why. Maybe they didn't like the big blue lettering on the U.N. sign. Behind us, a few Pakistani MiG fighter jets were screaming back and forth across the sky, patrolling the Afghan border. The war was closing...