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...Iraq war further revealed how little Bush learned from September 11. The president now blames his flawed rationale for the war on bad intelligence, but the “WMD-that-weren’t” fiasco was the second major intelligence failure on his watch. The crucial lesson of 9/11 was that U.S. intelligence needed to be overhauled immediately, before another intelligence flaw imperiled American lives. Bush failed that leadership test with catastrophic results...
...heart attack; in Paris. As the author of nine books and the editor of influential foreign policy journals, he helped shape political opinions and American foreign policy in the cold war era. His best-known work, Acheson: The Secretary of State Who Created the American World, was considered a crucial revision of postwar history, correcting the impression that Dean Acheson helped precipitate the cold...
...from being an evolutionary luxury then, the need for God may be a crucial trait stamped deeper and deeper into our genome with every passing generation. Humans who developed a spiritual sense thrived and bequeathed that trait to their offspring. Those who didn't risked dying out in chaos and killing. The evolutionary equation is a simple but powerful...
Washington had no more than a grade-school education, but he had an early grasp of issues that would be crucial to America's future, such as westward expansion and the vexing matter of slavery. He eventually concluded that slavery must be abolished, though his own slaves were freed only after his death. He also understood precisely what his role in the new nation should be. Washington emerged from the War of Independence as a kind of god. Like Caesar before him and Napoleon after, he might easily have parlayed military glory into imperial power. But he performed his greatest...
...open to being romanced by either party. The nation's largest minority group is expected to send 7 million to 8 million citizens to the polls, and even small shifts in the sizable Hispanic communities in hotly contested Florida, New Mexico, Nevada, Arizona and Colorado could have a crucial effect on the outcomes there...