Word: axioms
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Your report on the full-scale assault to take back Fallujah from the insurgents [Nov. 22] reminds me of the Vietnam-era axiom: "We had to destroy the village in order to save it." Although reconstruction is supposed to begin as soon as we pacify the Fallujah cauldron, attempts at such rebuilding in the rest of Iraq have shown that it is impossible to begin the work and spend the budgeted money because of the lack of security for work crews. What contractor on earth would want to undertake such risks to work in Fallujah, the most dangerous place...
...more secure if, instead of spending billions in Iraq, we used the money to secure our borders? David Cohen Wyckoff, New Jersey, U.S. Street Fight in Iraq Your report on the full-scale assault to take back Fallujah from the insurgents [Nov. 22] reminds me of the Vietnam-era axiom: "We had to destroy the village in order to save it." Although reconstruction is supposed to begin as soon as we pacify the Fallujah cauldron, attempts at such rebuilding in the rest of Iraq have shown that it is impossible to begin the work and spend the budgeted money because...
...Street Fight in Iraq Your report on the full-scale assault to take back Fallujah from the insurgents [Nov. 22] reminds me of the Vietnam-era axiom: "We had to destroy the village in order to save it." Although reconstruction is supposed to begin as soon as we pacify the Fallujah cauldron, attempts at such rebuilding in the rest of Iraq have shown that it is impossible to begin the work and spend the budgeted money because of the total lack of security for work crews. What contractor on earth would want to undertake such risks to work in Fallujah...
...axiom that proves particularly true in the performing arts is that no matter how hard we try, nothing can ever be as great as it was the first time around. There is just something about premieres—the anxiety, the atmosphere, the surprise—which is almost impossible to replicate...
...feeling cool. She taught me that Americans can cook as well as the French without being all French about it. And now, when restaurants in New York City, San Francisco and even Las Vegas are as good as those in Paris, she has once again proved the American axiom that brashness trumps snobbery. That fact, even more than my totally awesome onion soup, is what has got me by. --By Joel Stein