Word: explaination
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...even ordered a study--I was its director--of how the U.S. got involved in Vietnam, to try to explain what had happened. It came to be called the Pentagon Papers. And to show just how puzzling McNamara was, it's not clear that he ever read them. He lived long enough to see how terribly wrong he had been about the war and how much turmoil and tragedy it brought to Vietnam and the U.S. Now his life and his shadow torment us still, as our leaders contemplate modern versions of Vietnam in Afghanistan and elsewhere...
Courtney, Representative Joe • colleagues of are challenged by to explain just why they feel justified in denying to unelected Americans the same public-health-insurance option they as members of Congress are entitled...
...have yet to be acted upon by the banking committees in the House and Senate, and White House officials do not expect concrete legislative action until late this year at the earliest. That means that both the White House and Congress can expect many more months of needing to explain why it is O.K. for Wall Street to be thriving while the rest of the country, and much of the world, is suffering. As Gibbs explained on July 15, when asked about the big Wall Street paydays, "It is something that continues to be a great concern...
...maxim used to be that if you had to explain a joke, it wasn't funny. It's still true - even with the explanation, we don't get the appeal of something like, say, Robocop on a Unicorn. But for the rest of the Web's inexplicable absurdities, Know Your Meme at least gives you a fighting chance of getting...
...into it does occur, it could be the last nail in the CIA's coffin. This Congress could succeed where the Church Committee failed. Even if things are not that dire - people are always talking about abolishing the CIA - it will undermine morale for years. Congress, no doubt, will explain in the coming months how a program that was no secret was somehow beyond the pale. But if this game is nothing more than political bickering, it is not worth the candle...