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Allies of the President argue this is an unfair portrayal of the administration’s position. Such apologists raise a common, but misleading hypothetical. Suppose, they argue, authorities hold a terrorist with information about a ticking time bomb, and if they torture him to get the information they will be able to save hundreds of thousands of innocent lives. Those who oppose torture are called naïve because they reject the conclusion that torture would be justified in such a case. But the analogy itself demonstrates a misunderstanding about the complexities of intelligence gathering...
...whether the President intentionally misled the country into war-not the future. They are a waste of time. Two questions need to be addressed: Will an American withdrawal from Iraq create more or less stability in the Middle East? Will a withdrawal increase or decrease the threat of another terrorist attack at home? It does not matter whether you believe the war was right or wrong. If the answers to those questions are less stability and an empowered al-Qaeda, we'd better think twice about slipping down this dangerous path...
...Carnage Coach I was disturbed by Aparisim Ghosh's report "Professor of Death" [Oct. 24], on the Iraqi insurgent who trains suicide bombers. Although we know that people like that terrorist instructor are at work, I was nevertheless appalled by the explicit facts of his activities. What dismayed me most was your treatment of him as some sort of modern businessman. You utterly failed to categorize him as a raving psychopathic murderer, a class to which he belongs. Carl Templin Johannesburg...
...Norquist also suggested the natural disasters, as well as either the voters of Iraq (or, alternately, the terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who hopes to thwart them). TIME's own Matthew Cooper, who has been at the center of the criminal investigation into alleged White House leaks of the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame, suggested that Bill Gates may be worthy of Person of the Year award for his work as a philanthropist. And, ever the White House correspondent, he also suggested that President Bush could be considered for a second year in a row- although this time...
...Others suspects are believed to have links to the now banned Pakistani terrorist group Lasker-e-Toiba. It attracted recruits from around the world to undergo jihad training at camps in Afghanistan and Pakistan. After 9/11, the group sent supporters to fight on the side of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Australian David Hicks, currently held by the U.S. at Guant?namo, is believed to have trained with LeT in Pakistan...