Please expand that to "fringes of the religious extremist world" and make special note of those factions with military might at their disposal please.

Just because the extremist Muslim world is lacking in military resources compared to their Jewish and Christian nutjob counterparts doesn't mean that they are essentially any different in their disregard for The Others.

I'd rather enjoy not having to keep score on which side is winning so it makes sense to me that we should denounce psychopathic tendencies fueled by religious fervor in all its flavors.

Pretty please with sugar on top.

Thank you Glenn.

I am nearly despondant yet mezmerized by the power of trigger words like terrorist and torture on my fellow citizens. How an otherwise salient and productive American society can be duped into snivelling conformist cowards who self censor their perceptions so reliably and responsively is just disturbing to me.

The fact that anyone can read this prescient, concise and contextually complete assessment of our culture's sense of accountability and not be horrified serves as testament to the depth and durability of a voodoo more powerful than we may willingly offer credit.

Mass hypnosis works. The proof lies in our collective ability to ignore the obvious, or worse, defend the indefensible.

Thank you for caring Glenn.

This reads like a 24 ripoff. A bad teevee movie waiting to happen. Where are the facts to back up the alleged decision points?

For all anyone knows, this former building was intended as a false target to keep the Israeli's from sniffing around a real threat to their military dominence.

I was sadly disappointed that I learned nothing from this article.

Let us "hope" that Mr. Obama doesn't consider himself a modern day Jimi Hendrix who can handle this feedback with panache.

Stop feeding the hatred.

From http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/1009/666906.html

BETHESDA, Md. - Police are still looking for clues after a prominent economist was shot in the garage of his upscale home.

Ashoka Mody has been identified in an email to his fellow employees at the International Monetary Fund as the man shot Thursday night around 7:30 in his Bethesda garage in the 6800 block of Millwood Road

Mody is currently the assistant director in the European department and an expert in economic development and international finance.

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"It had to be random," said Julia Sullivan. "They are the nicest family. I don't know why anyone would want to hurt them so it's terrifying."

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So I'm glad Obama is continuing the inhumanity and the constitutional rape of the Bush administration. It shows a certain broadmindedness.

It belongs on The Onion but it passes for teevee narrative, nonchalantly admitting criminality of the past administration while welcoming the new wing of the war party to tepid approval.

At least Craphammer doesn't hide his instincts, as foul and un-American as they are.

The much more plausible means of acquiring them is to pay for one of the unaccounted weapons from the former Soviet arsenal or maybe even one of the missing Barksdale warheads from that B52 mishap that got some airtime last year.

Both of these sources have distinct advantages over HEU development that cannot be denied. Plutonium warheads weigh a mere fraction of a HEU warhead so you can actually put it on a missile instead of a cargo plane or a truck and the whole issue of triggers and detonation are already worked out by people who have tested it.

This entire line of assumption over Iran pursuing nukes through the tedium of building it from scratch just seems stupid when corruption of other empires would be so much easier.

Where is the outrage over unaccounted nuclear munitions?

Secret agreements between Israel and the US for nuclear advocacy ought to be public. Getting some sunshine on these terms would go a long way toward understanding the motivations and positions of these armed and dangerous parties.

Not that either party wants this information exposed to critical analysis or, forgive me, resolution in the name of peace.

First I see The Today Show selling Iranian Non-Proliferation Treaty compliance as cassus belli to America and now Broder is acting like Braveheart in war paint mode. Coordinated war propaganda is in overdrive again.

The next new moon isn't until Oct 17th/18th which is on a weekend. The Israeli assault on Iran will happen then if it is to happen this year.

Abu Ghraib on the Western front. If there is a national society that should be keenly aware of the hypocrisy here, it would be Iran above all others. At least Americans can claim that it only exists on the other side of the world.

Out of sight, out of mind, get back to work.

Showing the world that legendary reptiles are actually fair and reasonable if not highly predictable and beautiful in an otherwise treacherous terrain.

Congratulations on cleaning up the Old Grey Lady.

Please run Joe. I'm dying for someone to find out more about Lori Klausutis and whether she really was an AIPAC spy.

Who is Lori Klausutis? His lover/intern found dead in his Fort Walton Beach, FL office in the summer of 2001?

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http://www.americanpolitics.com/20010808Klausutis.html

How close was she with Chandra Levy?

Candidates for US President get more scrutiny than resigning GOP congress critters.

We may need less he said, she said and a little more analysis with accountability from our media.

More Americans may also need to exercise our critical thinking rather than our collective rage reflexes when confronted with cable catnip.

We are likely doomed.

He really stepped into the litterbox by asking if "the media" has spent too much time covering Michael Jackson.

We should have seen that one coming but not from a political insider like George on a prestigious political talk show.