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Critics say the price increase proves 1) last year's telecommunications bill failed to keep cable rates down as promised, and 2) competition from satellite-dish TV services isn't deterring rate hikes either.
And the standard recipe for deterring aggression--assured retaliation--may work fine with states, but it's problematic with terrorists.
The new mission: deterring nuclear, biological, or chemical warfare by lesser powers (formalizing President Bush's implicit warning to Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War).
In October 2003, reflecting on progress after two years of waging the global war on terrorism, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld asked his advisers:"Are we capturing, killing or deterring and dissuading more terrorists every day than the madrassas and the radical clerics are recruiting, training and deploying against us?