1. -- In New York, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan called for the United Nations to play a major fighting terrorism. 2. But that seems to have been a gross miscalculation since the Bush administration has made fighting terrorism the top priority of its foreign policy. 3. Daniels said the administration remained committed to debt reduction, but that fighting terrorism and nurturing an economic recovery must come first. 4. Do they think his pitiful plight emblematic of our fighting terrorism? 5. Fighting terrorism is far more important that fighting counterfeit sunglasses, he said. 6. Gallup recently found that respondents it questioned cited fighting terrorism as the top priority for Congress, with national defense ranking second. 7. Granted, fighting terrorism with trade and economic development is not as satisfying as dropping bombs on Taliban tanks, but in the long run it is more important. 8. In fact, fighting terrorism is not a job the Customs Service ever had the staff or the budget to perform. 9. In the longer run, the United States needs a strategy to deal with political Islam that goes beyond fighting terrorism. 10. It does not contain the essential message of the first, that fighting terrorism needs a national will to go after terrorists and their masters. |
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