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...Weinberger's push to spend - along with his disdain for arms control - led the military to launch dozens of programs that the nation never could afford to build. To make his case, he began publishing yearbooks entitled Soviet Military Power. The soft-cover books were emblazoned with scary artists' renderings of the communists' latest and greatest martial hardware, warning that the U.S. was falling behind. "There is nothing hypothetical about the Soviet military machine," the inaugural 1981 volume said. "Its expansion, modernization, and contribution to projection of power beyond Soviet boundaries are obvious." Of course, the Soviets' key expansion...
ANNE-MARIE SLAUGHTER Is the cause of freeing a people and pushing for progressive political and economic change in the most dangerous region in the world worth fighting and dying for? Undoubtedly. But has this war--with its disdain for allies and institutions, its willful blindness to any scenario other than easy victory and immediate democracy, and its planners' irresponsibility so deep as to be immoral in failing to protect the heritage, infrastructure and lives of a people who never asked for war--been worth it? Squandering lives and vast sums of money through a combination of arrogance and negligence...
...courses like that. We think our students deserve better.” One can only surmise that Ulrich’s criteria for “better” and “worse” took shape in the stew of postmodern clichés, identity politics, and disdain for the idea of history in the large that has inundated contemporary academic culture and to which Harvard has been as susceptible as any other institution. NORMAN J. LEVITT ’63 New Brunswick, N.J. March 3, 2006 The writer is Professor of Mathematics at Rutgers University...
Surely, The Crimson’s editors are not suggesting that two former deans under Harvard’s justly famous FAS are “second rate” and deserving of Mr. Summers’ open disdain? Allow me to suggest that your president’s behavior towards them and others is quite uncivilized...
...than the substance of the case. There were the attempts to inflate the belated revelation of the accident into a metaphor for the arrogance and secrecy that have defined the Bush Administration. And yes, the Vice President's behavior did seem to be another manifestation of his well-known disdain for accountability...