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...bigger than me,” he told the audience of about 200. “It has to do with city colleges, community colleges and state universities...with narrow patriotism, suspicious of dissent, and vicious forms of bigotry...
...twenty-one years ago the Israelis assumed this difficult responsibility when no one else was willing to take it on, and they may well have saved the entire Middle East. Today, all freedom-loving nations face the same challenge: immobilizing the technological pursuits of a vicious, land-hungry, terror-mongering despot before he gets his hands on the world’s most lethal weapons. President Bush is ready to lead, just as Begin was in 1981; and just as the Israeli prime minister stayed resolute in his convictions despite the barrage of international criticism that followed the bombing...
...heartland is imperiled by the disproportionate Tajik power in Kabul. That suits his Pashtun enemies: Since the Spring, the Taliban, al-Qaeda and Hekmatyar have all sought to foment a new 'jihad' against Karzai and the U.S. by exploiting Pashtun alienation from the Tajik-dominated government. That, and the vicious rivalry among local warlords - some of whom have been anointed as regional chieftains by the new government or been financed and armed by the U.S. for proxy service in the hunt for al-Qaeda - has helped those looking to direct the energies of many Afghan career-warriors into a campaign...
Another defector, from Iraq's intelligence service, told a Vanity Fair reporter that Saddam's son Uday oversees a vicious 1,200-man commando force called al-Qarea, trained to carry out terrorist attacks against American targets. Washington counterterrorism experts are skeptical about whether Iraq really boasts such a cadre. A U.S. official who studies Iraq says al-Qarea is probably a ragtag collection of men Uday dressed up as militants to impress his father...
Like most Palestinians, Sarasra sees only Israel's part in the destruction of Palestinian property and aspirations; he cannot or will not examine the role his people have played in laying waste to their community. Though it was Israeli ordnance that destroyed his house, the vicious action of his son Hazim lit the fuse. In fighting the intifadeh, the Palestinians have pulled the walls of their society down on themselves. Like Sarasra, they sit helpless and angry in the detritus of what was, wondering how it will ever be possible to rebuild. "Our problem is so huge," says Sarasra...