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"What is the worst thing that can happen in our country?" [Gen. Tommy] Franks asked rhetorically. "Two steps. The first step would be a nexus between weapons of mass destruction...and terrorism." The second step would be "the western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy."
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Columns: From Tommy Franks, a doomsday scenario
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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