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...there any viable options to anarchy? More troops? The U.S. military is overstretched and exhausted. Partition? The atmosphere in Baghdad is too chaotic and bitter for a new power-sharing deal among the Sunnis, Shi'ites and Kurds. The last best chance to restore order and hold Iraq together may be a dramatic ecumenical expansion of the Iraqi security forces under new leadership. We need to rectify the most serious error we made in Iraq after our initial military success and restore elements of the Baath Party, especially its former Shi'ite military leaders, to positions of power. Each...
...Iraqi military would have to be part of the package, as would a major diplomatic effort to involve Iraq's neighbors in regional stabilization. It would not be pretty or easy. We would have to find common cause with some very bad actors. I know it would be a bitter pill, Mr. President, but it may be your least worst choice in Iraq-and I believe the American public will be receptive to anything that can bring an end to this sad campaign...
...universities to be recognized by other countries too. In his "presidential" mansion, a cluster of old colonial-era sandstone buildings, the Turkish Cypriot President Mehmet Ali Talat complains: "We are facing very unfair treatment. Lifting the international isolation on Turkish Cypriots should not be a question of bargaining." But bitter memories and generations of distrust have made compromise difficult. The Turkish military, diplomats believe, has more than 30,000 troops on the island; the bulk of them would probably have to leave in the event of a settlement, and their leaders would prefer that they did not. For their part...
...human capacity for evil; on Martha's Vineyard, Mass. A descendant of slave owners, Styron became obsessed as a boy with the 1831 slave revolt led by Nat Turner, which began not far from his childhood home in Newport News, Va. Confessions, written in the first person, drew bitter criticism from black leaders, who called it presumptuous, but won Styron a Pulitzer Prize. Along with Sophie's Choice, the harrowing tale of an Auschwitz survivor that became an Oscar-winning 1982 movie starring Meryl Streep, it cemented his reputation as a literary giant. But his success did not come easily...
Most of the best stereotypically “American” rock songs were written at least partly as bitter parodies; witness Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land,” penned as an Okie anthem in response to Irving Berlin’s saccharine “God Bless America.” Not everyone heard Guthrie’s original lyrics protesting the plight of people who “stood there hungry” in line at the relief office; George H.W. Bush, an unrepentant booster of privatization and welfare...