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...Then as U.S. ground troops approached, the Republican Guard generally fled. Many of them appear to have acted on their own, motivated by fear and self-preservation. In Baghdad, according to a high-ranking Republican Guard officer interviewed by TIME, troops were actually instructed to desert. This may help explain why the members of the Special Republican Guard, deployed within Baghdad as the Iraqi regime's ultimate defenders, put up virtually no resistance to the American takeover of the city, as they felt the entire elite-forces structure collapsing around them...
...effective rule by law, solidifying political norms that Bush couldn’t change if he wanted to, a Boulanger-style putsch would be extremely unpopular. If Bush’s theatrics really were an assault on American values, voters wouldn’t need a newspaper columnist to explain it to them...
Klein was right on the money about Bush's bunker mentality and diminished presence. At an embarrassing Camp David press conference, British Prime Minister Tony Blair was forced to explain postwar complexities with the graceful fluency that is perhaps his last remaining virtue, while the leader of the free world, America's President, strutted and bullied his questioners like a war-movie tough guy. Many of us who didn't vote for Bush hoped he would grow into his job. Too bad it hasn't happened. A. RICHARD IMMEL Moraga, Calif...
...bizarre behavior of late: some time last year, in a still top-secret caper, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld must have convinced North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to switch sides and sign on to the Pentagon payroll. Okay, I admit this is far fetched. But it might just explain the series of self-defeating plays Kim has made on the strategic chessboard since President George W. Bush's "axis of evil" speech. Of course, Pyongyang's approach to statecraft has always appeared a tad peculiar, its international posture unapologetically savage. But alien as this "diplomatic" framework may seem...
...President John F. Kennedy ’40 been able to write about the present-day administration of the school bearing his name, he would have had to choose a word other than “courage” for the title of his book. How else to explain the absence of student input in the decision to honor Massachusetts Governor W. Mitt Romney by naming him 2003 commencement speaker at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government...