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Politics in California has become a dismal proposition. The state is so large that most politicians have given up on the standard ceremonies of the stump. There is little human contact, few town meetings or door-to-door work; there are simply too many doors. The prevailing wisdom among consultants is that you run in California by raising a lot of money and putting it all on television. The public has reacted to these soulless exercises with disdainful apathy; Californians tend to be more interested when the state's nutty kernel of political extremists put some...
Politics in California has become a dismal proposition. The state is so large that most politicians have given up on the standard ceremonies of the stump. There is little human contact, few town meetings or door-to-door work; there are simply too many doors. The prevailing wisdom among consultants is that you run in California by raising a lot of money and putting it all on television. The public has reacted to these soulless exercises with disdainful apathy; Californians tend to be more interested when the state's nutty kernel of political extremists put some...
...meantime, he and others could savor what had just happened--after 20 days, a 350-mile charge to Baghdad, 32,000 combat missions, 20,000 bombs--and what had not yet occurred. The country's major cities fell without the weeks of grinding door-to-door fighting that many had feared. Fewer than 120 U.S. soldiers perished, a figure at the low end of the most hopeful forecasts. Iraq's bridges and dams and essential infrastructure survived. While no arsenal of chemical and biological weapons had yet been found, those arms had also not been used...
...back streets and cinder-block neighborhoods, where his forces could neutralize American technological superiority with guerrilla tactics that put civilians in the middle. He saw how faithful defenders hidden in Iraq's southern cities scored surprising success holding out. The U.S. desperately wants to sidestep that kind of bloody door-to-door fighting, which could drag out the war and rack up unacceptable body counts among American troops and innocent Iraqis...
...military has long prepared to lay siege to Baghdad instead of plunging directly into the city and engaging in brutal door-to-door urban warfare. Allied commanders say they may cordon off the capital with a loose chain of troops, tanks and armored vehicles. U.S. troops may cut off the supply of water, food, electricity and communications--encouraging civilians to flee the city center and leaving Saddam's soldiers and perhaps even the Iraqi leader holed up. U.S. forces would then attack targets inside the city with air strikes, long-range weapons and surgical commando raids with...