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That is not to say that the things Bush believes are true. The war in Iraq was not a necessity. It is more likely to result in regional chaos than in the "benign domino effect" of regional democracy promised by neoconservatives. But Bush truly believes--and these are admirable beliefs--in the power of "freedom" and the evil of Islamist radicalism. He is secure enough to acknowledge the possibility that he might be proved wrong. Two weeks ago, he told TIME that history would be the judge of his policies--it would take decades to sort...
...necessary adjustment and modernization of the tax system that required bureaucratic toil and a willingness to take political risks, but not great courage or imagination. Reforming wage bargaining and introducing user-pays for education and health across the board have been done gradually. A fairly benign, mainly symbolic, deal such as the Free Trade Agreement with the U.S. is a metaphor for the Howard-Costello way: a second-order reform is sold with five-star trimmings as a "once in a generation" windfall. Costello talks up an agenda for solving the intergenerational crisis that lies ahead...
...less extensive X rays--scanning just the kidney, for example, if what you are looking for is kidney cancer. Minimal scanning will also cut down on the chances that you'll find a growth that requires more invasive testing but turns out--and it usually does--to be perfectly benign...
...about the U.S. in the Iraqi quagmire. And when Iraq was raised, it was done in a deceptive and simpleminded way. Even John McCain, who gave the most serious foreign policy speech of the week, presented a false choice: "Our choice [in Iraq] wasn't between a benign status quo and the bloodshed of war. It was between war and a graver threat...
...doctors may be ordering too many colonoscopies to check patients whose colorectal polyps have already been removed. Most patients with benign polyps or other low-risk growths in the intestine need monitoring only once every three to five years or not at all. But a survey in the Annals of Internal Medicine finds that many doctors perform follow-up colonoscopies more frequently, which puts patients at further risk for tears in the colon and other complications...