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...civil rights in the 1960s and the environment in the 1970s. Baker knows Washington's political culture has changed for the worse since he retired several years ago, so while his description of the scope of the problem is accurate, the difficulty of achieving it in the current bitter climate is considerable...
...objectives - and that's exactly what the main Iraqi political factions are doing, too. (Indeed, it's hardly surprising that both the Shi'ite and Kurdish parties that dominate the current government are more inclined to pursue their own objectives than follow Washington's script, since each has bitter memories of being abandoned by the U.S. during their abortive uprisings against Saddam in 1991.) A U.S. withdrawal, after all, would mean abandoning many of its own objectives, fatally weakening the moderate Arab regimes it has vowed to protect, abandoning some of the world's largest oil reserves to be fought...
...already a ruined nation, long incapable of sustaining a sophisticated WMD program. And the Middle East turned out to be very different from the Balkans and West Africa. In a region where religious loyalties and fissures shape societies and where the armies of "the West" summon ancient rivalries and bitter memories, it was naive to expect that an occupation would quickly change a society's nature. "When we removed the Taliban and Saddam Hussein," Blair told Congress in 2003, "this was not imperialism. For these oppressed people, it was their liberation." But we have learned the hard way that...
Maybe I’m bitter because my cell phone plan only gives me something like 50 free texts per month, and I always go over my limit (sorry Mom). Maybe I’m upset because my finger reflexes are a bit slow, and I can’t churn out 160 characters in 42 seconds like the text-messaging record holder (it’s a real competition, look...
...walk into the living room of George and Martha, one of the two couples around whom “Who’s Afraid?” revolves. Set in a university town, the intense drama centers on a late-night meeting between two professors and their wives: the bitter, aging George and Martha (played by Simon N. Nicholas ’07 and Chelsey J. Forbess ’07, respectively) and the younger, more hopeful Nick (Jack E. Fishburn ’08) and Honey (Elyssa Jakim ’10). As the plot unravels, so does...