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...Ikariya played the consummate straight man: stolid, good-natured, never too proud to enjoy a good chuckle at his own expense. In the 1980s, as Japan grew richer and more worldly, Ikariya's homespun charms lost their grip on the public imagination. But Ikariya left Japan with an important lesson: dignity doesn't have to come at the expense of humor. -By Ilya Garger/Tokyo...
...real lesson from Iraq is that preemption requires pristine intelligence. Clearly, we don’t have pristine intelligence,” he said in his speech sponsored by the Institute of Politics...
...after the recent bombings in Madrid, fear and suspicion gripped the country and Spaniards swept Socialist leader José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero into victory. If we didn’t know it before, this weekend’s election in Spain provided a valuable, if horrifying, lesson: Terrorism works. Just ask Rajoy...
What is most terrifying about last week’s election is that it is a casebook lesson in why terrorism works: In their fear and anger, Spanish voters acquiesced to the terrorists’ demands. Afraid that Spanish support for the war in Iraq fueled the bombing, voters pulled their support of a man who has a history of aggressive, anti-terrorism efforts designed to make Spain safer, only to elect a man who promised to withdraw from Iraq. Immediately following the election, Zapatero announced that Spain’s 1,300 troops would be withdrawn from Iraq unless...
...hiding; rather, it will be because terrorism is no longer seen as a viable solution for those who might seek to employ it has a weapon. Standing up against it is the only way to do that. Sadly, that did not happen this weekend, but let it be a lesson for the future...