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It was sixth-century barbarians who commandeered the massive round brick pile as a fortress, using ancient statues as missiles to hurl on the heads of their enemies below.
Instead, the U.S. should use its pinpoint conventional missiles to make both pre-emptive and retaliatory strikes against nuclear terrorists and rogue states.
"The brethren in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait want to bombard Iraq with missiles, deprive it of half of its only seaport and finance its dissident groups, but get angry when Iraqi officials cannot contain their outrage and let fly with a few statements condemning those who collude in aggression against their country," al-Quds al-Arabi added.
(That story, by Thomas Ricks and Robert Greenberger, was also the first report of the detail in yesterday's NYT about the U.S. dispatching a general to Pakistan to reassure that U.S. cruise missiles were not an attack by India.)
It may well be that the hands molded the brain, not vice versa, the stimulus being the all-important activity of marksmanship: throwing missiles at prey.