Posted by Matt in September 4th, 2006 |
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US units are on high alert; Israeli holidaymakers are advised to leave at once.
The smaller group of three Palestinian suicide killers penetrated the Egyptian territory from Gaza on the last day of August heading for a large-scale murder-cum-kidnap operation against Israelis.
The second is the largest al Qaeda terrorist team ever tasked in [...]
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Are we winning the war? The first question to ask is, what war? The Bush administration continues to muddle a national understanding of the conflict we are in by calling it the “war on terror.” This political correctness presumably seeks to avoid hurting the feelings of the Saudis and other Muslims, but [...]
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But the game the Chinese play virtually ensures the U.N.’s regular failure in the face of humanitarian crisis. Indeed, the combination of Wang’s deft diplomacy and China’s willingness to defend nations it does business with from allegations of even the grossest abuse has made a mockery of all the pious exclamations of [...]
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In these critical times, never were the words truer that America is the last, best hope of this earth. Only through US leadership will western civilization be able to prevail against the threats posed by: a) rogue states and their affiliate terror organizations, and, b) the nations of Russia and China that [...]
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Despite increasing economic and cultural exchanges as well as civil interactions between Taiwan and China, military confrontation is likely to erupt due to the serious cross-strait military imbalance, coupled with a mutual lack of confidence and absence of political talks, Hsia said in an interview with the Central News Agency.
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Yet Iran is different, which is why a collapse in resolve towards Tehran really matters.
Iran is a special case because, first, it is already an established menace. It has spent the past two decades consistently seeking to sabotage any prospect of a permanent peace settlement between Israel and its neighbours and it [...]
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Here’s a scenario: Israel is attacked, by Syria for example, with conventional weapons of equal magnitude to tactical non-conventional weapon – for example, the firing of a thousand missiles, each weighing a ton, within a short period of time. The overall power of such assault is a kiloton (million kilos of explosives) [...]
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