I would like to think that there remains a reservoir -- call it patriotism, if you will, or call it civic duty -- within the private sector that does not require companies to be leaned on in order to cooperate. |
listed ISNA as one of 25 American Muslim organizations that 'finance terrorism and perpetuate violence.' |
Oil imports and the dark cloud they cast over this country requires dramatic and immediate attention. When that prolonged oil crisis occurs, Americans will pay anything because they will have no choice. Why wait until a catastrophe strikes to get truly serious about addressing the problem? |
President Bush has dug in his heels on a fight he surely cannot win. The deal will ... be aborted. |
The issue for the administration is not going to get any better or smoother with time, as the public seems so dead set against it. |
The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are . . . the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us, |
The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are . . . the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us. |
The object of China's strategy is inexorably to supplant the United States as the world's premier economic power, ... and if necessary, to defeat us militarily. |
This is a detour, and we have to get around it. Time is not on our side, and Saddam is running out the clock. |
Were we to cancel it outright, I am convinced that what we will do is not only set back the effort to advance our military and its performance of missions ... (but) we will wind up paying in a currency that we hold particularly dear. And that's the lives of Marines and other service personnel, |