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...more “surge” of effort. But the harder we struggle, it seems, the quicker we sink. The only palatable solution is an orderly, well-planned draw down of troops that will ultimately culminate with a withdrawal. But President George W. Bush is unwilling to admit failure, and Congress does not have the wherewithal to force him to. Indeed, even if they could, legislating military strategy would be imprudent. We have reached an impasse, and the options do not look good. On one hand, Congress could cut off funds for the war entirely, which would eventually force...
...Understanding what we're collectively afraid of as a society is a very difficult task. How can we trust survey responses to questions about what we perceive is our greatest weakness? Sure it might be easy to admit to common fears like public speaking or spiders, but how likely are we to admit to "fear of monsters," "fear of pickles," or "fear of elbows." Before turning to search data to learn more about fear, I've often wondered what the most common phobias...
Public discussion of global warming in the U.S. is years behind the rest of the world, and adaptation is no exception. "You can't adapt to a problem you don't admit exists," notes Richard Klein of the Stockholm Environment Institute, another IPCC co-author. The U.S. has only recently acknowledged global warming, while other countries are already taking concrete action to prepare for its impact. The Netherlands has some of the strongest flood defenses in the world and is making them stronger. Britain has doubled spending on flood and coastal-defense management, to about $1 billion a year. France...
Number of Iraqis the U.S. is planning to admit as immigrants this year...
...remind Rice that most Palestinians opposed his meeting the U.S. delegation and to say: "You've come to me with a list of Israeli demands. Where is your list of our demands for the Israelis?" Abbas supposedly agreed. It was only after TIME published these remarks as we admit here, and the State Department denied that Abbas had confronted Rice, that the influential Fatah chiefs learned their boss had not followed through. "Frankly, I'm not surprised," one angry committee member remarked afterwards, "Abbas doesn't respect us. He's too busy bowing to American demands. He's become Condi...