European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 10, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June 2007 stars and stripes Page 21 opinion what newspapers Are saying at Home the following editorial excerpts Are selected from a Cross Section of newspapers throughout the United the editorials Are provided by the associated press and other stateside funding Iraq War was a must the Ohio to those who see the world through a partisan last months congressional vote to continue funding american troops in Iraq looks like a loss for on the contrary those democrats who re fused to legislate an american military de feat despite intense pressure from a Well i Well organized Campaign on the left deserve great no serious person doubts America is at War with islamist movements that seek the wests among those move none is More threatening than and a Laidas most Active and lethal combatants Are in Congress has authorized four months of funding for David the new commander in by he will need to show that he is making head Way with his new strategy of bringing in reinforcements and moving troops out of big bases and into the mean streets of Baghdad and Alsaid infested Anbar while he does Ryan the new ambassador to must push As hard As he can to get Iraq leaders to make risky compromises and assume heavy re Faa dispute affects air safety the representatives for the nations air traffic controllers contend that Public safety is being routinely compromised because the traffic control towers at Many airports Are chronically Lexington Blue grass site of a crash last summer that killed 49 of the so people is a Case in despite a Federal aviation administration requirement of two Only one was on duty when com air 5191 com air has filed suit alleging that Tower under staffing was a Factor in the a controllers association spokesperson said that when they investigated payroll they found that Lexington controllers had worked 17 times More overtime since the 27 crash than during the eight months the Faa did put new National staffing standards into effect in but its spokesmen vigorously deny that theres a controller staffing wildly different interpretations of reality Are common in management worker Dis but this Between the Faa and its obviously is More consequential than Mere to cases used by others the Rocky Mountain Denver Atlanta attorney Andrew who getting treatment for a Dru Gresis Tant Strain of tuberculosis at National jew ish medical and research Center in Den quickly became a Rorschach test for activists pushing various before speaker was even identified As the he was cited by opponents of the presidents immigration Reform pack by advocates of tougher Border Securi by fans of a massive boost in spending on Public and by those who believe health authorities should act More aggressively to Stop new strains of infectious Dis to support their but where to draw the line Between free Dom to travel and protecting Public health prickly City by Scott Stantis a delicate balance must be struck be tween protecting the Public and Freedom to which has Long been recognized As a constitutionally protected the noxious notion that a crackdown on illegal primarily from would prevent outbreaks of infectious diseases needs to be de the centers for disease control and prevention reports that hispanics Are More Likely than no hispanic Whites to suffer contagious so Are african Ameri suggesting that closing the Borders would eradicate tuberculosis is less than Andrew speaker and fellow to patient Robert Daniels Are Citi Zens who have the wherewithal to Fly they dont fit the profile so Preva Lent on the talk show and because they it suggests that Many simple solutions May simply be treat to As threat to All the Post intelligencer the  uproar can have a healthy outcome if americans take a world problem to the which has been quietly killing millions in poorer needs the kind of attention too often reserved for threats to the developed worlds a Good Start would be congressional Pas Sage of the Stop tuberculosis now act of sponsored in the House by a bipartisan group that includes Adam Smith from the proposal would put policy solidly in line with the world health organizations Antita strategy and require increasing difficult but somewhat less Dru Gresis Tant strains of to face Public health authorities local Public health offices around the state need the resources to keep track of and treat the dangerous to strains also show the need for encouraging new vaccines and maybe one air trip involving an infected american will do More than Mil lion annual world to deaths to Spur development of options to protect dont give Sudan More options the United states has lived up to its Promise to increase pressure on the govern ment of Sudan to Stop the Slaughter in the Darfur Region of that its time for other world Powers and the United nations to do the More than people have been killed in fighting in another million have been forced from their Homes and turned into the United states already had instituted sanctions against the sudanese govern ment and its stat owned presi Dent Bush recently announced that Washington will expand those deny sudanese companies Access to the banking system and restrict the business of sudanese government these sanctions would serve Well if they were but Russia and China have been acting As the defenders of the regime in and the european Union has shied away from Strong sanctions Arent so painful if Sudan can find plenty of Market space the economic pressure on Sudan must be increased if its governments behaviour is to be and that can Only happen with More global if they the violence in Darfur is Likely to and the governments that dont act will be complicit in this Geno soda Swap right for schools the Kansas City Star cutting Back on soda in High school vend ing machines has Cost area school districts but it is the Way to go to protect Young Peoples More schools should be helping students avoid excessive consumption of sugary Money is tight in Many school but obesity is not a reasonable Trade off for schools that have become accustomed to making Money off soft drink the Blue Valley District lost More than this year Over last because of a de Cline in vending machine As Well As payments from soda companies for carry ing their the decline began after the american beverage a Large supplier to stopped or reduced the sales of sugary drinks to schools and substituted other last year the Harvard school of Public health found in a review of nutrition stud ies that sugary drinks Are linked to Ameri cans weight gains Over recent soda int the Only contributor to that school districts should do the Best for Stu dents they districts that lose Money by cutting out the High calorie foods and drinks could seek parents help in making up the Finan Cial possibly through and states should consider financial bonuses to those districts that make better student health a Ottmo limbo not acceptable the Miami Herald two military judges dismissal of charges against two detainees in separate hear Ings at the Guantanamo prison Camp Are just two More reasons Why defense Secre tary Robert Gates should close the after five Guantanamo is still just a holding facility for both Bona fide terror suspects and men who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong after the supreme court found parts of the Legal process to be Union Stith Congress passed the military com missions which set up a dual tribunal system to judge the process de Nied them either Hareas Corpus or due pro Cess be rocks of Juris Pru the administration says that As Long As the detainees Are kept in they Are beyond the reach of civilian the administration has stubbornly Clung to treating the Guantanamo detainees not As prisoners of which would put them under the auspices of the Geneva Conven but As enemy combatants without rights or protections under any including the this has rightly brought worldwide the Guantanamo detainees should be subject to either the military code of Justice or civilian these two Legal systems have brought the guilty to jus Tice and freed the innocent since their in they Are the Only sure guarantee that the world will see that real terrorists who seek to destroy us Are time Frame for filing is unfair the Democrat and Congress should move quickly to repair the provisions of civil rights Law in Light of the supreme courts recent Nar Row the court threw out the claims of a female Goodyear tire worker who argued that Over the years shed been paid be tween 15 percent and 40 percent less than her male a 54 majority of the justices said she had missed the 180day filing deadline established under the court was right As far As the statute of limitations the plaintiff did file after six months had but its Clear to anyone who has suffered discrimination or tried to remedy it that the reality of the situation be it in equity in pay or hiring or promotion is often hard to discern and hard for employees to Challenge once it is the 180day clock starts tick ing the moment the employer makes the pay democrats in the Senate began moving through an amendment that would set the clock going from the moment the employee detects the paycheck disc rim even if that years after the Congress might rather establish a filing time affords the worker ample time to detect the inequity but Doest tilt the Scales too unreasonably against the business in marshal ing its Legal