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Bush and Bradley don't have any practical suggestions.
Yet even that picture is not so clear: If Anglo parents in New York are choosing to have their very young children begin the study of Spanish, as the article in today's New York Times indicates, does this mean, as the Times suggests, that they have come to value multilingualism, or does it mean they are just being practical?
KSM, for instance, denies that Saudis were chosen for the 9/11 plot to drive a wedge between the United States and Saudi Arabia, and stresses practical reasons for considering ethnic background when selecting operatives.
Information sharing and coordination are key elements in developing comprehensive and practical approaches to defending against computer-based, or cyber, attacks, which could threaten the national welfare.
In particular, Plotz's notion that adventures used to be (and need to be) driven by practical considerations, such as opening trade routes, strikes me as daft.