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Bring troops home from Afghanistan

Before plunging deeper into the Afghanistan quagmire, we should consider a lesson from our Vietnam debacle. After sacrificing 58,000 American lives and millions of Vietnamese, to stop the "dominoes" from falling into the Communist camp, we lost the war, only to discover we were better off losing the war than winning it.

After Vietnam's guerrilla forces drove American forces out of their country, the dominoes fell against each other: Communist China against Communist Russia, Communist Vietnam against China and Communist Cambodia. Blinded by our monolithic anti-communist ideology, Washington ignored the historical hostilities dividing the communist world. The bond uniting our enemies was not communism, but a common enemy -- America; and when that bond shattered, their divisions surfaced with a vengeance.

How many more lives, American and Arab, will we sacrifice before learning that winning or losing in Afghanistan has little relevance to crushing al-Qaida when those terrorists can attack Americans from many other places in the globe? More effective, should President Obama act as an honest broker for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, removing a major source of anti-American hostility in the Middle East, he would land a far more powerful blow than sending more Americans into the bloody quicksands of Afghanistan.

Edward Cuddy

Kenmore

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More soldiers needed if we want to win war

I simply have one question regarding the Obama administration.

If, as the president says, "we are at war with al-Qaida," then why are we trying to fight that war on the cheap? As I recall, Gen. Stanley McChrystal requested an additional 45,000 troops in his battleplans for the war in Afghanistan. The president gave him 30,000.

Would we think that Ralph Wilson was really trying to win a football game if he suited up only four players a game?

Jake Jacobs

Cheektowaga

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Boy Scouts has been positive force for many

2010 is the 100th anniversary Thomas sabo charms of the Boy Scouts of America. The organization's positive impact on the lives of boys in Western New York and across the country is remarkable and worthy of praise and respect, particularly at this time.

Instead, The News chose to reprint an article in the Jan. 10 paper titled, "Scouts Honor," which was written for the Los Angeles Times. This kind of negative and one-sided journalism has no place on the proud centennial of the Scouts, if ever. In addition, much of the content was erroneous, including the membership requirements in the last paragraph, which were just plain wrong.

The News owes the Scouts who delivered its papers over the years a better shake than this. Please rectify the wrong you have done by presenting a fair assessment of the contribution that scouting has made to the quality of life in our community for the last century.

Donald I. Dussing Jr.

East Amherst

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Criticism of Ford, Rumsfeld was odd

As the father of a future Eagle Scout, I began reading with interest the Jan. 10 opinion piece by Charles Fleming on the Boy Scouts' 100-year anniversary. In
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DAVID MOYES has urged his crestfallen Everton players to hit the Premier League heights once again to guarantee a return to Europe.

Moyes" men are still coming to terms with their Europa League exit after they crumbled to a 3-0 defeat at Sporting Lisbon on Thursday to lose 4-2 on aggregate.

It came just days after champions Manchester United were comprehensively dismissed 3-1 at Goodison, with Everton having also beaten leaders Chelsea earlier in the month.

Their sole focus now is on sealing a return to the Europa League, hopes of which have been re-ignited by a run of one defeat in 12 league games.

"It has been a bit of a rollercoaster," said the Goodison manager. "We have been playing well yet when we have links of london charms been asked to step up at times we have not done it. Other times we have.

"We are a little bit inconsistent in that way. However we cannot complain about the consistency the players have shown in the league the last few months.

"They have done really well. But in the cups we have not played that well to deserve much more than what we have had.

"We should have been good enough to go through against Sporting but over the two legs it was not to be. We have set standards but there are not many positives when you play like that."

Moyes is almost certain to restore Sylvain Distin and John Heitinga to the heart of the defence at White Hart Lane after both were ineligible on Thursday.

Phil Jagielka is also available after having his first outing since April following a knee ligament injury, the England international having stepped off the bench in Lisbon as Philippe Senderos took a knock on his hip which makes him doubtful for tomorrow"s game.

Tim Cahill will once again be absent with a calf problem.

Goalkeeper Tim Howard was one of the few Everton players to emerge from the Sporting loss with any credit.

He said: "We need to go out and get the next result and give the performance against Tottenham we know we can produce. It will be massive for us. We've been on a good run and we want to keep that going."

Best & Worst Date Movies of All Time

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For about a fifth of the cost you can enroll in programs such as NetFlix which allow you to rent an unlimited amount of movies for a low monthly price and no late fees. You simply select the movie you want and they will be mailed to you in a few days. Once you're finished watching them chopard Watches. simply place them in the prepaid envelope and ship them back. It's really that simple.



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The Notebook (ROMANCE - 2004 - Starring Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling): The Notebook is a contemporary love story and a favorite with many women. Adapted from the best selling novel Fake Roger Dubuis Watches. the film tells the story of two "star struck" lovers from different sides of the track. Sound familiar? The movie is about love at first sight...the type of love that you carry with you wherever you go and regardless of the circumstances. The type of love that stays with you throughout your life and doesn't let you forget.

My Cousin Vinny (COMEDY - 1992 - Starring Joe Pesci and Marisa Tomei): When two young men are convicted of a crime they didn't commit. it's up to Joe Pesci (playing a hysterical role as the argumentative attorney from New York) to save them from being sent to the electric chair. My Cousin Vinny is a well written and clever comedy that is sure to be a hit. Marisa Tomei does an incredible job as Joe Pesci fiance; she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

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SYDNEY -- Australian band Men at Work copied a well-known children's campfire song for the flute melody in its 1980s hit "Down Under" and owes the owner years of royalties, a court ruled Thursday.

"Kookaburra Sits in the Old Gum Tree" was written more than 70 years ago by Australian teacher Marion Sinclair for a Girl Guides competition, and the song has been a favorite around campfires from New Zealand to Canada.

The teacher died in 1988, and publishing company Larrikin Music owns the copyright to her song and filed the lawsuit last year.

"I have come to the view that the flute riff in "Down Under" ... infringes on the copyright of Kookaburra because it replicates -- in material form -- a substantial part of Ms. Sinclair's 1935 work," Federal Court Justice Peter Jacobson said.

He ordered the parties back in court Feb. 25 to discuss the compensation Larrikin should receive from songwriters Colin Hay and Ron Strykert and Men at Work's record companies Sony BMG Music Entertainment and EMI Songs Australia.

Montgomery County police arrested two men suspected of raping an 11-year-old girl.

Melquicide Sorto, 31, and Marcos Torres-Enriquez, 20, both of Silver Spring, were charged with second-degree rape. Police said a girl was walking near Piney Branch Road and Carroll Avenue around 8:30 p.m. Monday when two men tried to speak to her in Spanish. replica breitling watches Police said the men then took the girl to an apartment and raped her. The girl immediately told her mother and was taken to a hospital.

Police arrested the men Tuesday.

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Both Medaille basketball teams will get to play for an NCAA berth against Pitt-Bradford on their home floor today.

The Mavericks and Lady Mavericks, both No. 1 seeds, advanced to their respective Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference title games with semifinal wins at the Sullivan Center replica tag heruer watches on Friday.

The women's team used a 22-8 run in the second half to pull away from Penn State-Altoona in a 71-57 win. The men also used a 14-0 second-half run to earn an 88-65 win over Frostburg State.

For the Lady Mavs (24-2), it was their 14th straight win, putting them in today's 1 p.m. championship game against No. 7 Pitt- Bradford (11-16).

Medaille got a key performance off the bench from Tanisha Travis, who netted 21 points with 12 rebounds and six blocked shots. Kacie Mills (Kenmore East) added 15 points while replica breitling watches Amanda Sahhar (Orchard Park) had 10 points.

The men's team (22-4) is looking for back-to-back NCAA Tournament bids in today's 3:30 p.m. title game when it faces No. 2 Pitt- Bradford (17-10). Pitt-Bradford won both regular season meetings with Medaille, which set a program record for wins in a season.

Tied at 48-48, the Mavs used a 14-0 run to take control.

Ron Malicki (Pioneer) had a game-high 20 points off the bench for Medaille, while Keith Hack had 19 points and 10 rebounds and Mike Berkun (Williamsville North) added 10 points.

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Niagara hockey wins

A goal by Bryan Haczyk 6:54 into the third period gave the Niagara men's hockey team a 4-3 win over Alabama-Huntsville in Dwyer Arena.

The Chargers (9-15-2, 5-8-1 College Hockey America) scored first, but Niagara (8-18-4, 3-9-2) built a 3-1 lead on goals by Egor Mironov, Rob Martini and Marc Zanette.

Chris Moran tallied two more assists for his ninth multi-point game of the season.

Meanwhile, Canisius dropped an 8-0 Atlantic Hockey decision at RIT (21-11-1, 21-6-1). Dan Morrison recorded 40 saves for the Golden Griffins (15-13-5, 13-10-4 AH).

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Gac wins MAC title

University at Buffalo's Matt Gac won the men's weight throw with a school-record toss of 65-21/4 at the Mid-American Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships in Michigan.

BEIJING, Jan. 12 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH COMMENTS BY CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESWOMAN)

China said Tuesday it has successfully tested its missile interception technology, less than a week after the United States said it has approved the sale of upgraded Patriot air defense missiles and related support equipment to Taiwan.

The missile interception test was ''defensive in nature'' and was ''targeted at no country,'' Foreign Ministy spokeswoman Jiang Yu said at a regular press briefing in Beijing.

She said the test would neither produce space debris in orbit nor pose a threat to the safety of orbiting spacecraft.

The official Xinhua News Agency, in a brief dispatch earlier in the day, said China had ''conducted a test on replica hublot watches ground-based midcourse missile interception technology within its territory.''

''The test has achieved the expected objective,'' it said without elaboration.

The Global Times, a newspaper published under the official People's Daily, on Tuesday quoted Chinese military experts as saying the test represents a breakthrough in the country's air defense capabilities and missile interception technology.

The newspaper quoted Yang Chengjun, a senior military strategist, as saying China needs improved military defense capabilities as the country faces ''increasing security threats.''

The development of missile interception technologies represents a further step in the country's military modernization, Jin Canrong, an academic at Renmin University's School of International Studies, told the newspaper.

On Jan. 6, the U.S. Defense Department reportedly awarded Lockheed Martin a contract to provide the Patriot Advanced Capability-3, or PAC-3, system to Taiwan as part of an arms deal approved by the U.S. Congress in 2008.

China has voiced opposition to the planned sale, with the Foreign Ministry last week urging the United States to cancel it to avoid damaging bilateral ties.

Jiang reiterated Beijing's stance Tuesday, calling on Washington to take ''concrete steps'' to safeguard its ''core interests,'' though she did not directly link the missile interceptor test to the arms sale.

A Xinhua commentary on the arms sale Monday earlier also warned that the arms sales justified suspicions of Washington's sincerity in taking concrete action to respect each other's ''core interests.''

China claims self-ruled Taiwan as its own and opposes U.S. arms sales to the island as a threat to its sovereignty and territorial integrity, issues at the heart of what it considers ''core interests''.

''This move clearly showed the dual character of the United States in dealing with the major issues related to China's core replica tag heruer watches interests, especially at the moment that the cross-Straits relations have embarked on a path of peaceful development,'' Xinhua said.

''All previous U.S. arms sales to Taiwan have caused great damage to the Sino-U.S. relations and blocked their stable and smooth development,'' it said, adding, ''The United States should...immediately stop arms sales to Taiwan, in order to avoid damaging bilateral cooperation in key fields.''

Amid warming cross-strait relations with Taiwan, China continues to deploy some 1,300 ballistic and cruise missiles against the island, according to Taiwan's
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