COMMENTARY By SUSAN ESTRICH: "Go back to the oven," the woman in her hijab in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., yelled to the Jewish Americans demonstrating their support for Israel. "You need a big oven, that's what you need." This is why I love Israel and always have. It is because Israel will never surrender to their hatred. Israel is tiny. If you live in Massachusetts, as I did when I traveled there two decades ago, imagine Rhode Island being in the hands of those who are committed to destruction, sending rockets over your common border. If you live in Los Angeles, as I do now, imagine San Diego being not only a different state, but a committed enemy whose official government has long been listed as a terrorist organization.
============ COMMENTARY By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN: Over the next couple of years, two very big countries, America and China, will give birth to something very important. Theyre each going to give birth to close to $1 trillion worth of economic stimulus in the form of tax cuts, infrastructure, highways, mass transit and new energy systems. But a lot is riding on these two babies. If China and America each give birth to a pig a big, energy-devouring, climate-spoiling stimulus hog our kids are done for. It will be the burden of their lifetimes. If they each give birth to a gazelle a lean, energy-efficient and innovation-friendly stimulus it will be the opportunity of their lifetimes. So heres hoping that our new administration and Congress will be guided in shaping the stimulus by reading John Maynard Keynes in one hand to get as much money injected as quickly as possible and by reading Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future with the other. Gathering Storm was the outstanding 2005 report produced by our National Academies on how to keep America competitive by vastly improving math and science education, investing in long-term research, recruiting top students from abroad and making U.S. laws the most conducive in the world for innovation. You see, even before the current financial crisis, we were already in a deep competitive hole a long period in which too many people were making money from money, or money from flipping houses or hamburgers, and too few people were making money by making new stuff, with hard-earned science, math, biology and engineering skills. --------------- IRAN USING FRONTS TO GET BOMB PARTS FROM U.S.: The Iranian businessman was looking for high-quality American electronics, but he had to act stealthily: The special parts he coveted were denied to Iranians, especially those seeking to make roadside bombs to kill U.S. troops in Iraq. With a few e-mails, the problem was solved. A friendly Malaysian importer would buy the parts from a company in Linden, N.J., and forward them to Iran. All that was left was coming up with a fake name for the invoice. Perhaps a Malaysian engineering school? "Of course, you can use any other company as end-user that you think is better than this," the Iranian businessman, Ahmad Rahzad, wrote in an e-mail dated March 8, 2007. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WebTV Dawgs/Dittos" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/WebTV-Pals -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
