The relationship between the U.S. and Pakistan has always been described as turbulent. Even though the U.S. considers Pakistan an ally in the war on terror, there has always been a degree of tension between our government and Pakistani leaders.
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6/23/11
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Long Islanders should be proud that as a result of the Republican victories in November, U.S. Rep. Peter King returned as chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee.
We should also sleep …
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Al D'Amato
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1/17/11
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Life imitates art, so to me, the recent xenophobic rants against foreigners seem to jump right off the pages of “The Lazarus Project,” an award-winning novel by Aleksandar Hemon.
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Randi Kreiss
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5/14/10
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No American could possibly take much comfort in the failed Christmas Day terrorist attack by a wannabe airplane suicide bomber. The good news was that the attacker was even more incompetent than our security services. His bomb misfired. Brave passengers wrestled him to the ground.
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Randi Kreiss
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1/14/10
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Think about what you know now, January 2010, that you didn’t know a year ago. Standing on the threshold of the new year, we have a moment to look back at how those 365 days changed us, as individuals and as a people and as paid-up members of the human race.
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Randi Kreiss
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1/7/10
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Like many of you, I had a Christmas Day that wasn’t completely filled with merry joy and ho-ho-ho. I got flipping mad when I learned of the botched terror attempt on Northwest Flight 253 from Amsterdam to Detroit.
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Al D'Amato
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1/7/10
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President Obama has made a decision regarding the future of our country’s involvement in Afghanistan. Drum roll, please. We’ve all been waiting on the edge of our seats.
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Al D'Amato
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12/10/09
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It may seem odd to confess in a newspaper column, but this year I went on a week-long news fast. Actually, it was the week up to and including Thanksgiving that I blacked out the news; I needed to clear my mind.
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Randi Kreiss
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12/3/09
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President Obama is struggling with a decision that could define his presidency: Should the United States commit more troops to the war in Afghanistan in the interest of “nation building,” or limit our role there to hunting down Al Qaeda?
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Al D'Amato
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10/15/09
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"Happy writes white,” the novelists say. Talk about a happy man or happy news and before you complete the thought, your readers will fall asleep. It was Tolstoy who glibly indicted happy families by saying “they are all the same.”
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Randi Kreiss
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10/1/09
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