This link has been bookmarked by 4 people . It was first bookmarked on 05 May 2008, by harry palmer.
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14 Oct 08
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as violence has been ebbing, information has been exploding.
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Every weather disturbance is the "storm of the decade." Every bomb that explodes is BREAKING NEWS.
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06 May 08
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Every bomb that explodes is BREAKING NEWS. Because the information revolution is so new, we—reporters, writers, readers, viewers—are all just now figuring out how to put everything in context.
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Actually, your chances of being killed in a terrorist attack are tiny—for an American, smaller than drowning in your bathtub. But it doesn't feel like that.
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Islamic jihadists are a nasty bunch—
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So they blow up bombs in cafés, marketplaces, and subway stations. The problem is that in doing so, they kill locals and alienate ordinary Muslims.
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Al Qaeda in Iraq, for example, has turned into a group that is more anti-Shiite than anti-American
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ince 9/11, Al Qaeda Central, the gang run by Osama bin Laden, has not been able to launch a single major terror attack in the West or any Arab country—its original targets.
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If this is 1938, as some neoconservatives tell us, then Iran is Romania, not Germany.
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The fact that for the first time in history, the United States can contest Russian influence in Ukraine—a country 4,800 miles away from Washington that Russia has dominated or ruled for 350 years—tells us something about the balance of power between the West and Russia.
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05 May 08
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We didn't watch daily footage of the two million people who died in Indochina in the 1970s, or the million who perished in the sands of the Iran-Iraq war ten years later. We saw little of the civil war in the Congo in the 1990s, where millions died. But today any bomb that goes off, any rocket that is fired, any death that results, is documented by someone, somewhere and ricochets instantly across the world. Add to this terrorist attacks, which are random and brutal. "That could have been me," you think. Actually, your chances of being killed in a terrorist attack are tiny—for an American, smaller than drowning in your bathtub. But it doesn't feel like that.
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