He dropped the bomb: "Does that still make the Republicans the more pro-life party?" Now that's what I'm talking about: Old-fashioned bridge-building.
"In moments of clamour and moments of fervour, decisions are made — go here, invade there, bomb there, do this, do that….
"The nuclear bomb, does that bother you?" Mr. Nixon asked.
It's the biggest bang you can make and it's your bomb that does that!
It all creates a terrifying soundscape, and at night we lie in our beds hoping that the bombs do not drop on our houses, that glass does not shatter onto our children's beds.
The Saudi bombs do not show that America is losing the peace in the Middle East.
Apart from that, there was one lesson that the Soviets ought to take from Bikini: if you're going to test atomic bombs, do it somewhere that you don't mind contaminating.
"And that raises a suspicion that suicide bombs don't play well on television in the West these days".
A curious sentiment given that men, still, are the vast majority of combatants and that bombs do not discriminate by sex.
It's reassuring to think that the bombs don't always work, though it's possible that the Hezb-e-Islami group Mr. Quraishi followed was not as well financed or trained as its Taliban or Qaeda compatriots.
