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...hijacked the campaign, creating widely circulated Tahoe ads with slogans like, "Nature? It'll grow back. Drive a car that costs the earth." Last year, Lee Ford and Dan Brooks, a London-based creative ad development team, came up with an "edgy" Volkswagen spot for a demo reel: a terrorist tries to detonate a car bomb outside a crowded café. But the car, a VW Polo, is too sturdy--it contains the blast, killing the terrorist but saving the café. Shot on a shoestring budget, the clip is shocking, tasteless, stunningly effective--and totally unauthorized. When it leaked onto...
Rumsfeld and the services put aside their feud for a real war, and over time the need to transform things seemed to disappear, partly because the terrorist attacks opened the cash spigot and hard choices didn't seem necessary. Instead of having to choose either weapons of the future or those of the past, the Pentagon last year bought both. Rumsfeld has canceled only a single major weapons program in two years, the $11 billion Army Crusader artillery gun, while allowing such dubious programs as the Air Force's $200 million F22 Raptor fighter and the Navy's $2 billion...
...great. "We are having mixed results with al-Qaeda, although we have put considerable pressure on them--nonetheless, a great many remain at large ... we lack metrics to know if we are winning or losing the global war on terror. Are we capturing killing or deterring and dissuading more terrorists every day than the madrassas and the radical clerics are recruiting, training and deploying against us? The cost-benefit ratio is against us! Our cost is billions against the terrorist costs of millions ... It's pretty clear that the coalition can win in Afghanistan and Iraq...
...people. Now that Hamas has assumed power in the Palestinian territories, if attacks on Israel continue, Israel may justifiably respond to such attacks for what they are, an aggressive assault on its people by the Palestinian Authority. There will be no hesitation because Hamas is no longer a loose terrorist organization able to hide in the shadow of the ruling authority. It is the ruling authority, and as such, it is a clear and targetable enemy. If Hamas wants to destroy Israel, Israel has a right and duty to fight for its own survival and to destroy a perverted leadership...
...case any reader flirts with becoming a terrorist sympathizer, Thomas is sure to reduce a complex political situation to a black-and-white equation any child can understand: terrorists are bad, others are good...