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2006-08-12 21:27:25 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Fashion & Accessories

2006-08-12 21:27:19 · 10 answers · asked by tu2fuk 1 in Singles & Dating

2006-08-12 21:26:59 · 9 answers · asked by MAHESh 1 in Biology

2006-08-12 21:26:49 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Friends

For the first day of school, i was planning to wear pink faded jeans with a sparkly belt, a glittery pink top from tammy, pink jewelry, and pink ballet flats? do you guys think that is too pink? Should i wear regular jeans instead?

2006-08-12 21:26:22 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Fashion & Accessories

are you an offender? or are you offended? a good way to "win" is to stop dead so that the other person has no choice but to walk around you!

2006-08-12 21:26:17 · 2 answers · asked by lisa s 2 in Other - Society & Culture

2006-08-12 21:26:14 · 8 answers · asked by Ibbu 1 in Trying to Conceive

2006-08-12 21:26:00 · 11 answers · asked by kath m 1 in Psychology

And we haven't gotten pregnant yet. I calculate my fertile days, and my ovulation. I watch for signs of ovulation, and still nothing. Do you think that my body has reacted to the stress, the let down, the frustration, and the planning of trying to concieve? Do you think that I should just stop calculation, and just have fun, and not stress so much about it? Do you think my body will ever relax since we want a child so much? Has anyone on here ever had a similar experience, then stopped worrying so much about it, and then got pregnant?

2006-08-12 21:25:55 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Trying to Conceive

I'm not a believer in fate personally. But do you believe there is "one" person in our life we are destined to be with or is there is their a couple or more "one"'s our there provided we may meet them. Do you believe when we meet the "one" we know or is it possible to not know and yet still meet the a diffrent "one"?

2006-08-12 21:25:35 · 19 answers · asked by N Q 2 in Singles & Dating

This was not writen by an American...This comes from an european newspaper...I post this in lue of the recent uprising in "loosing confidence of the American Military. Our boys and girls, of the USAF, are the finest in the world...There is no question about it...Anyway...This is what people in Britain think of our military capability...

Armed to the teeth

Is Bush's awesome increase in military spending a reasonable response to the afermath of September 11, or is he creating a force almost too powerful for its own good? Peter Beaumont and Ed Vulliamy report

Is America too powerful for its own good?

You can have your say online here.

Observer Worldview

Sunday February 10, 2002
The Observer


There is a United States special forces dog-handler who meets journalists, diplomats and aid workers off the UN flight to Kabul. His job is to search luggage and ensure the security of US troops in Afghanistan. He is short, gingery and aggressive. His skills at persuasion are limited to shouting at the milling crowd: 'Stand back! Stand back! My dog will bite!'
Last week that phrase had become the defining motto and operating credo for the military and foreign policy of the Bush administration. Already President George W. Bush has put Iran, Iraq and North Korea on notice as terrorist-sponsoring nations at the centre of an international 'axis of evil', despite the CIA's recent evidence that none of them was in the business of threatening the United States at present.

Last Monday, to back that explicit threat, he announced an increase in US military spending of 15 per cent, the biggest in 20 years, more than double the military spending in all of the European Union. The rise will be $36 billion (£26.5bn) this year, $48 billion next year and $120 billion over the next five years, rising to a staggering two trillion over the next five years.

Even this is not enough for General Richard Myers, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. They want the US defence budget to increase at an even faster rate.

What all this means is clear. Troubled by the 11 September attacks and buoyed by the ease of the war against Afghanistan, Bush's message to the 'evil doers' of the world is that he has a dog; that it is very big, getting bigger, and certainly it will bite.

The puzzle about the latest rise in defence spending is that America at the beginning of the 21st century is already not so much a superpower as a behemoth on the world stage. Economically dominant, it enjoys military and cultural power unrivalled since the days of the Roman emperors, as the American author Robert D. Kaplan reminds us in his new book, Warrior Politics.

Typically, it has been left to the French, traditionally suspicious of US global hegemony, to find the best words to describe it. Gigantisme militaire they call it, in a phrase that describes both the scale of America's ambitions and also a pathological condition: an organism grown so large it is sick.

The question the rest of the world is asking itself is: Who is the enemy America is arming itself so against? And why?

'Ostensibly,' says one European diplomat, 'this is about security. But quite how a massive increase in defence spending is supposed to prevent another terrorist attack remains unclear. Instead this seems to be about repairing the bruised American psyche after 11 September. America's powerlessness in the face of this attack requires big gestures and reassurances, even if they are counter-productive and meaningless.'

Indeed, some analysts say, if it is security that America seeks it is better sought in dialogue with potentially threatening states, rather than in reinforcing the idea already held by many anti-US groups that it is an evil empire bent on world domination.

Cynics have identified more overtly self-serving strands in the Republican obsession with America's defence. The 'war' rhetoric, as some US liberal commentators have pointed out, serves a purely domestic Republican agenda in the post-11 September mood of national paranoia: to win Bush a second presidential term and, in the shorter term, regain Congress.

The reality - even before the latest proposed increases in military spending - is that America could beat the rest of the world at war with one hand tied behind its back. The requirement that US armed forces be able to fight two fully fledged wars with two separate adversaries simultaneously may recently have been dropped, but only because it would be hard pushed to find two such equal foes to fight.

A single US nuclear-powered carrier group - which forms around the USS Enterprise, for example, with a flight deck almost a mile in length and a superstructure 20 storeys high - concentrates more military power in one naval group than most states can manage with all their armed forces. America has seven of these battle groups.

It is not just the scale and power of these weapons systems. The reach of US arms, too, is awesome. When the USS Kitty Hawk was sent with its accompanying warships from Yokohama to the Gulf for the war against Afghanistan, it covered 6,000 miles in just 12 days to be transformed into a vast floating forward attack station for thousands of US special forces.

Its B-52 bombers can fly and refuel across the world armed with cruise missiles that can be fired hundreds of miles away from hostile skies, the missiles themselves directed to their targets by satellites in orbit.

And America's supremacy in bombs, planes, satellites, tanks and real-time intelligence have made the prospect of US casualties remote, except in the event of ****-up or disaster. And, significantly, as the world's only economic hyper-power, it can afford this level of militarisation.

But against all this even the manufacturers of America's arms - like the aviation giant Lockheed-Martin - have been struggling for a decade or so to define the threat its top-shelf jets will be battling in the skies, being forced in one memorable presentation to show the European Eurofighter as a potential adversary.

So why the need for more and better military power? Even military analysts are baffled. 'The rise in US military spending,' says Dan Plesch, senior research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, 'ought to be compared to the decision in the First World War to order up more cavalry when the first wave had been mown down by machine-guns.

'The US has no competitor in high-tech military equipment. And what it is spending its money on is mostly irrelevant against the knives used to carry out 11 September. The bombing of Afghanistan has created the illusion of victory.'

Professor Paul Kennedy at Yale University calculates that the US now spends more each year than the next nine largest national defence budgets combined. Indeed America is responsible for about 40 per cent of the world's military spending.

2006-08-12 21:25:34 · 26 answers · asked by quarterback 2 in Other - Politics & Government

I was devirginized at the age of 17 years old and quite often think of her even at the age of 41. Lost contact with her but I am happily married and would never contemplate doing so again.

2006-08-12 21:25:33 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Singles & Dating

I prefer menthol lights... I can't handle Marlboro Red...
What other mentol lights cigarettes should I try?
I'm using marlboro...

2006-08-12 21:25:25 · 24 answers · asked by shardraco 3 in Polls & Surveys

do kiera knightly and natalie portman look like they could be twins?

natalie portman-http://www.natalieempire.com/gallery/natalie-portman11.htm

kiera knightly-http://myidol.idolonfox.com/Photos/ShowPhoto.aspx?aid=12293&un=fashioncritic&pg=3

tell me what you think, but these are not the same person! also, kiera knightly was cast in star wars epsiode one as natalie portman's character's(padme amidala) decoy when she pulled the old switcharoo on the trade federation, i didnt know that before today

2006-08-12 21:25:18 · 8 answers · asked by mikemusic19 3 in Celebrities

2006-08-12 21:24:53 · 1 answers · asked by sumit 1 in Special Education

skye alexandria?

2006-08-12 21:24:50 · 26 answers · asked by princess_cristee 2 in Parenting

girls say the would prefer it shiny...and smooth so how can it be done is the question??

2006-08-12 21:24:47 · 15 answers · asked by drew t 1 in Skin & Body

2006-08-12 21:24:40 · 8 answers · asked by chinusan123 1 in Mathematics

2006-08-12 21:24:37 · 10 answers · asked by karen p 1 in Physics

S E X ?

2006-08-12 21:24:33 · 8 answers · asked by Princess ♥ 2 in Polls & Surveys

I want to make a good mixed drink containing at least 2 of these and some mixer. What should I make?

2006-08-12 21:24:33 · 7 answers · asked by Nathan R 1 in Beer, Wine & Spirits

the effect on labolatory and lecture teaching on achiving in integral sciences jornal of research in science teaching

2006-08-12 21:24:30 · 2 answers · asked by Lemuel Ibe 1 in Chemistry

2006-08-12 21:24:13 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Homework Help

2006-08-12 21:24:11 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in South Africa

wht wud u do if u c ur sis having sex iwith her bf in ur room in ur absence. wht will u feel and how u deal with sis after this

2006-08-12 21:24:01 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Family

Which place would you choose?

2006-08-12 21:23:56 · 15 answers · asked by Mobidus Lee 3 in Other - Australia

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2006-08-12 21:23:39 · 6 answers · asked by andrew p 1 in Security

Besides from spinach, I am unsure what foods are high in iron.

2006-08-12 21:23:38 · 10 answers · asked by Complex 2 in Other - General Health Care

2006-08-12 21:23:31 · 3 answers · asked by barquitofree 1 in Maintenance & Repairs