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How Bush hardliners and even mainstream pundits have hogtied one of our greatest potential strengths in the war on terrorism.
  • I have an urgent question

    Illustrating the lack of costs that come with such expressions is the story of Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, who in a 2003 speech compared his faith with a Muslim's by stating, "I knew that my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol." Boykin has since been promoted; today he is deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence.

    When the government engages in self-parody, what are the cartoonists and writers left to do?