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...alternative view is that the lion's share of responsibility for what has taken place in Iraq over the past few years belongs to the Iraqis themselves. Under this narrative, the U.S. would be seen as having failed there less for any lack of effort or resolve than for the absence of an effective national partner. This narrative is more likely to take hold if the U.S. publicly sets clear benchmarks for what Iraqis must accomplish regarding political reform and security performance and what they should expect if they come up short...
Through natural selection, a host of natural enemies have evolved: think the lion and water-buffalo, the cobra and the mongoose, and the police officer and the college student. When each meet, violence typically occurs: The mongoose enters a death-tango with the cobra. The University of California, Los Angeles policeman tasers students in the library. This is nature. However, as human beings, we have the ability to overcome nature’s imperatives through the use of civilizing institutions like mutual respect, and porta-potties. The tailgate didn’t achieve much, but the peaceful existence...
...akin to the 1969 police storming of University Hall or other events of police brutality across the nation. However, changes and compromises need to be made. Although students and police might never agree on noise, alcohol, and public decency laws, a middle ground can be found, so that a Lion King-like “Circle of Life” equilibrium can be reached. And in the vast Serengeti of the Charles River, the lions and water-buffalo can once again be at peace?...
Which risks get excessive attention and which get overlooked depends on a hierarchy of factors. Perhaps the most important is dread. For most creatures, all death is created pretty much equal. Whether you're eaten by a lion or drowned in a river, your time on the savanna is over. That's not the way humans see things. The more pain or suffering something causes, the more we tend to fear it; the cleaner or at least quicker the death, the less it troubles us. "We dread anything that poses a greater risk for cancer more than the things that...
...political establishment and now see al-Dari as the personification of their community's predicament. On Sunni TV channels, newspapers and Internet bulletin boards, there is an outpouring of vitriol against the government and support for the cleric. A typical message reads: "We are your swords, O Lion Sheikh - From the people of Adhamiya." (Adhamiya is a Sunni-dominated neighborhood of Baghdad.) Several Sunni groups - insurgent, political and social - have paid "homage" to him, which is akin to naming him their spiritual leader...