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Jim Geraghty : Should we fight terrorists with missiles or ‘black ninjas’?
By JIM GERAGHTY
Another View
Thursday, Jun. 1, 2006
IT WOULD be really nice to have two political parties who thought seriously about the nation’s defense. But we don’t; we have one flawed party and one that refuses to think seriously about it at all, preferring to avoid hard choices.
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Andrew Cline has been editorial page editor of the New Hampshire Union Leader since October of 2001. His writing has appeared in more than 100 newspapers and magazines, including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and National Review.
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