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...ambassador testified. But Crocker also testified that the Iraqi Shi'ites were Arabs who had fought fiercely against the Iranians in the eight-year war and were very unlikely to cede control to their Persian neighbor without a fight. Petraeus described al-Qaeda in Iraq both as the greatest threat to stability and as the greatest loser in the struggle, its brand of Islamic extremism decisively rejected by the Sunni tribes...
...terrorism of the Islamic variety is not the most sinister threat to our civilization. Rather, a morbid and cowardly fear of our own mortality, a wretched animal attachment to a life that has lost all richness and meaning, is far more insidious precisely because it arises from an inner corruption and not from the paroxysms of zealots halfway around the world. One of the most brazen examples of this malaise is the current hysteria about cigarette-smoking that is sweeping through the west...
...just like many Harvard commencements, the threat of rain forced administrators to move the event indoors. While many freshmen and parents were able to pack into Sanders Theatre to hear the speakers, others had to watch it on screens in the Science Center...
...Additionally, many commentators have criticized Walt and Mearsheimer’s claim that the lobby led the U.S. into Iraq by pointing out that the Israeli political leadership regarded Iran as a greater threat than Iraq...
...mobbed by hundreds of thousands of fans upon his arrival, but Sharif could yet face arrest on long-standing corruption charges. That may not neutralize the threat he represents to Musharraf. "It will further increase his stock," says Iqbal. "This threat of arrest is an indication of how insecure the government is right...