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...Be careful??what you wish for, Mr. President. Now that he has won re-election, the bloody mess in Iraq remains George W. Bush's No. 1 responsibility and the one most likely to define his presidential legacy. The British experience occupying the country in the 1920s offers unhappy instruction. That expedition's commander thought he went as a liberator and arrived with scant ground troops. The local leaders the British picked to rule were weak and derided as puppets. Iraqis rebelled with attacks that stunned the occupiers in their ferocity. Ultimately, the occupiers had to use brute...
...sweet-sounding party line. It has been discovered, for example, that a small number of criminals commit an inordinate percentage of violent crime. Therefore, many states have introduced "career criminal" programs that successfully concentrate on locking away those habitual offenders. Such clarity of vision is already permitting a careful???and, yes, hopeful?assessment of exactly what prisons can and cannot be expected to do. Prisons are a mess, but they may not be irretrievable. Rather, a new, sober set of hopes is required. Prisons can be made clean and safe and fair, and they can be used more judiciously: decent...
...President's decision? If there were voices inside the Administration counseling against the H-bomb, they did not make their arguments public. Many a Washington correspondent pointed the finger at retiring Atom Boss David Lilienthal, who last week characterized all such stories about him as "inaccurate," but was careful???on security grounds?not to say just where he did stand...
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