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Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to "The Great Debate," by Gary Kamiya, and "State of the Union: Frightened," by Jake Tapper.
The State of the Union: Frightened
Jake Tapper
President Bush did his best to scare the bejesus out of his audience Tuesday to make his case for war. And afterward, he was probably the only person to get a good night's sleep.
Total Information Awareness: Down, but not out
Farhad Manjoo
Congress may have put the brakes on the most ambitious government surveillance program ever. But for citizens worried about their privacy, TIA still means trouble.
Bush’s “days of reckoning”
Salon Staff
In Tuesday's State of the Union address, President Bush outlines his plan to spur the economy and shackle Saddam.
The INS runaround
Laura McClure
The immigration service's new registration plan is supposed to help fight terrorism. It's also locking people up without explanation.
Iraq
Eric Boehlert
Chemical weapons, civil war and Arab rage could turn an invasion into a disaster.
The Middle East
Gary Kamiya
The White House's reckless, one-sided policies could lead to a global catastrophe.
Understanding Kim Jong Il
Laura McClure
He likes fast cars and fast women, he's been implicated in murder and terrorism, and now he's got nuclear weapons. But dismissing the North Korean dictator as crazy plays into his hands.
Bush’s illogical foreign policy
Robert Scheer
The nuclear threat from North Korea reveals the limits of the Bush administration's preemption doctrine.
Radical humanist, Iraq hawk
Michelle Goldberg
Kanan Makiya, an Iraqi progressive living in exile, welcomes U.S. intervention as the best chance for freedom in his country. And he wonders why U.S. leftists aren't with him.
To know America is to love America?
Michelle Goldberg
Advertising maven Charlotte Beers is trying to sell the U.S. to the Muslim world, but nobody's buying it.
Bush’s drive for global abstinence
Laura McClure
At a United Nations conference in Bangkok, the U.S. shocks more than 30 Asian countries with a condemnation of premarital sex, contraception and abortion.
Rock-ribbed Republican — and anti-Bush
Michelle Goldberg
The newest, most outspoken critics of the war on terrorism and Iraq are conservatives.
Letters
Salon Staff
Readers respond to "It's OK -- She's a Public Figure" by Keith Olbermann, the appointment of Elliott Abrams and the Republican reaction to Trent Lott.
Bush’s frightening Middle East appointment
Gary Kamiya
By naming Iran-contra rogue Elliott Abrams its top policy advisor on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the White House is signaling a hard
pro-Sharon line that could prove disastrous.
A front-row seat at war
Gary Kamiya
HBO's "Live From Baghdad" is the story of one of live journalism's finest hours -- and a cautionary tale for an increasingly docile press.
Falling arches
Michelle Goldberg
McDonald's is under fire all over the world -- with Thursday's bombing only the most recent. Can the fast-food conglomerate withstand the heat of global anti-Americanism?
Blind man’s brinksmanship
Eric Boehlert
Early signs suggest Saddam may deny that he has weapons of mass destruction -- just what White House hawks are hoping for.
What would Mohammed do?
Laura McClure
Geraldine Brooks, an expert on the role of women in Islam, says the "haters of beauty" behind the Miss World riots misrepresent what is a "pro-sexuality" religion.
Is Big Brother our only hope against bin Laden?
Farhad Manjoo
Civil libertarians are outraged about Total Information Awareness, the government's Orwellian plan to monitor everyone, all the time. But some computer scientists say it might be the only way to save civilization.
The decline and fall of the American empire
Suzy Hansen
An expert on geopolitics says forget Islamic terrorism -- the real future threat to America's supremacy will come from Europe.
“Grave questions of invasion of privacy”
Salon Staff
Sen. Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat, warns that the Total Information Awareness program threatens our basic rights -- and questions whether Adm. Poindexter is the right man to run it.
The 9/11 movie Hollywood won’t let you see
Sarah Coleman
The "stridently anti-American" anthology film "11'09"01" is sometimes arty, sometimes preachy and sometimes brilliant. In Bush's America, it's also commercially untouchable.
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