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...Wall Street Journal editorial leading up the 2006 gubernatorial election accused him of “denying, dissembling and developing convenient cases of amnesia,” in the face of accusations of abuse in office as attorney general. A 2007 New Yorker feature labeled the then-newly elected Governor Spitzer as an “aggressive personality with an ambitious agenda...
Tallying the enemy's dead as a metric of battlefield progress was discredited for a generation in the U.S. military after the Vietnam debacle, but the body-count measurement appears to have been revived by the Army in Afghanistan. The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that the 101st Airborne Division has been publicizing each enemy death - for a total of nearly 2,000 - over the past 14 months. That news has already renewed the debate over the wisdom of relying on such numbers. "This isn't going to do anything to convince the American public that we're winning...
...body count as its primary metric may not only have contributed to losing the war, but in the end it proved so morally corrosive that it led to a crisis of soul-searching in the postwar officer corps," William Murray wrote in 2001 in Parameters, the Army's scholarly journal; it then led to a discrediting of the practice in the U.S. military...
Richard Fisher, president of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank, just returned from a trip to China, where, he told the Wall Street Journal, "senior officials grilled me about whether or not we are going to monetize the actions of our legislature. I must have been asked about that a hundred times...
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