1. As Americans prepare for military retaliation, our huddled masses yearn for justice and tranquility. 2. Assad had warned Israel not to undertake a military retaliation against Lebanon. 3. At Columbia, the graduate students in an international affairs class discussed the events by debating the merits of military retaliation versus resorting to American and international courts. 4. At the yeshiva for the newly observant, a man named Natan said that military retaliation was not the answer. 5. But neither did he rule out military retaliation if another country proved to be involved. 6. But in recent weeks he has resisted right-wing pressures for strong military retaliation against the Palestinians. 7. But schemes for conventional military retaliation would not suffice without detracting from the force of American deterrent threats. 8. But there were other voices arguing that military retaliation was exactly what the guerrillas wanted. 9. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld urged Americans to be patient as the Pentagon maps U.S. military retaliation beyond suspected Afghanistan-based mastermind Osama bin Laden. 10. Fearing military retaliation by the Americans, many have headed for the supposedly safe rural areas, or the borders. |