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...Second, a faith in the good intentions of the American nation spawns two types of arguments about Iraq. The first variant, largely confined to the political Right, connives to apportion blame for the ‘mess?? in Iraq to the Iraqis themselves. Aside from ignoring Coalition troops’ direct hand in Iraqi deaths (according to the Lancet study, 56 percent of all cases where a perpetrator was known, amounting to hundreds of thousands of Iraqis), not to mention their role in fomenting Iraq’s sectarian bloodshed, this claim whitewashes the gross illegality of their...
...view is that most of this is nuts,” Atran wrote. “How is anybody in academia ever going to have as much as possible to offer in this whole mess??though people in academia keep complaining that the government doesn’t pay attention to serious scholars—if no one can even talk to the people most involved...
Between all the whining and the melancholy, there are a few surprises. “Three Changes,” like every other song on the album, is a mess, but a calculated mess??a Sgt. Pepper’s-esque track that strays the farthest from the album’s gloom. Apart from Albarn and Danger Mouse, bassist Paul Simonon (of the Clash) contributes the most to the album’s feel. From the hopelessness of “Behind the Sun” to the electro-folk longing of “The Bunting...
...billion in debt? Paper over some with rosy economic forecasts and accounting tricks, but borrow $15 billion to keep the creditors at bay. Yes, borrow in order to fund…borrowing. This comes after Arnold attacked Gray Davis in the recall campaign for the “fiscal mess?? that his predecessor’s plan to borrow $10 billion would cause...
...transfer of power to local authorities—June 30, just weeks from today. Mired in the paranoia of an election year, this deadline ensures ample time to dissociate his presidency from the ongoing violence and volatile events on the ground. The president will be able to blame the mess??the suicide bombings, random violence, rampant unemployment and poor social services that plague the country—on the Iraqi administrators nominally in charge, rather than take responsibility for his unimpressive reconstruction policy...