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...hunt for al-Qaeda terrorists in Pakistan and Afghanistan and going after non-existent weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq, Bush has jeopardized world peace and cheated the American public. As each day passes, the U.S. will find it more and more difficult to extricate itself from the mess in Iraq. Navnith Krishnan Bangalore, India...
...Then again, maybe I just wasn't in much of a mood to listen to speechifying about the international mess last week-certainly not to grand expositions of doctrine and principle tethered only vaguely to the horrors on the ground. My guess is, you're losing patience with being orated at as well. Some evidence: An abc News/Washington Post poll tracked "emotional responses" to the situation in Iraq. The "emotions" measured sounded like a Postmodern parade of Snow White's dwarfs: Angry, Hopeful, Proud, Worried and Frightened. Angry had almost doubled, from 30% to 57%, since March. Hopeful and Proud...
...President has a far more difficult problem, and quite the opposite of Kerry's. He got us into this mess. He has continually explained the war in platitudes. His imprecise idealism is not only inappropriate now, but has become downright annoying. His five-point plan is built on the quicksand of Ambassador L. Paul Bremer's failed seven-point plan-and it bears little resemblance to the emerging realities on the ground. The truth is, we are in full-scale retreat, both politically and militarily. Bush believes that Iraq is the front line in the war on terrorism...
...He’s not letting coming up to the big leagues mess with him or intimidate him at all,” said Ellis Burks, the veteran Red Sox DH whose knee injury has relegated him to the 15-day disabled list. “He had a lot of poise up there...
...best of these has Blanchett as a slim, chic movie star taking a break from a day of interviews to meet her cousin, whom she also plays, in a hotel lobby. The cousin is a mess--hooked up with a trashed rocker, nursing and occasionally flashing her envious grievances at her star relative. They would like to pretend that nothing has changed since childhood. Both know better. You will cringe. You will laugh uncomfortably. You will get the basic idea of Jarmusch's movie, which is that all his anecdotal encounters are about the betrayal of the coffee-and-cigarettes...