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Passengers want options, and when they have options, like passenger rail, they choose them.

In planning an attack, persons have various roles.

In a world full of competing emergencies and disasters, it really helps if there is an international locomotive that can help us bring attention - help us bring resources.

People's lives are in the care of the railways when they get on a train. The railways should remember that.

Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.

We think there should be a better countering-violent-extremism effort, that there should be a lead agency tasked to handle that.

But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League.

The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

Even when they're not causing injury, human-controlled cars are often driven inefficiently, ineptly, antisocially, or in other ways additive to the sum of human misery.

The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.