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...collapse as a result of waning support in the Arab world and beyond. To be sure, the primary purpose of the revisions being proposed is to make continued sanctions more palatable to governments that question whether they serve any positive purpose. Essentially, the proposals reverse the current sanctions formula by lifting blanket restrictions on Iraqi imports, except for a list of specified items to prevent Baghdad refurbishing its military or developing weapons of mass destruction. The current formula forces Baghdad to apply to a U.N. committee on a case-by-case basis for all of its imports, a bureaucratic process...
What really matters is perfecting the magic formula to get nostalgic thirty-somethings to dispose of their disposable income, and anything that doesn’t fit into that magic formula must be ruthlessly culled. If all this produces rising rents and anonymous shops in our favorite Square, then so be it. Just don’t cry when your favorite store, or even your favorite restaurant franchise, closes—Yuppie focus groups have obviously demanded it. While it may no longer be possible to rent a movie late at night or grab a pint at the Bow, you?...
...guerrilla, a pretty prostitute a clandestine agent, the kid who delivered the laundry a secret informer. Flooded rice fields concealed spikes, booby traps permeated jungles, and barracks were vulnerable to terrorist attacks. No wonder the grunts were paranoid and their commanders frustrated. So strategy was reduced to a basic formula: kill as many of the enemy as possible in hopes of breaking their morale. We deployed our vast arsenal, and butchered at least a million of them. We gauged progress by piles of twisted corpses?the grim "body count." Yet the Vietnamese continued to fight. After the war, Colonel Harry...
...guerrilla, a pretty prostitute a clandestine agent, the kid who delivered the laundry a secret informer. Flooded rice fields concealed spikes, booby traps permeated jungles, and barracks were vulnerable to terrorist attacks. No wonder the grunts were paranoid and their commanders frustrated. So strategy was reduced to a basic formula: kill as many of the enemy as possible in hopes of breaking their morale. We deployed our vast arsenal, and butchered at least a million of them. We gauged progress by piles of twisted corpses--the grim "body count." Yet the Vietnamese continued to fight. After the war, Colonel Harry...
...keep up tradition. We no longer have the higher moral purposes (such as eliminating Hitler or saving human freedom) but keep the ghastliness of war. We have drifted far out of sight of the Geneva Conventions, or of any rules at all. "Women and children first," once the formula of lifeboat gallantry, takes on an evil meaning...