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Accentuate the positive In addition, France has long assigned itself a "civilizing mission" to improve allies and colonies alike. In 2005, the government even ordered high schools in France to teach "the positive role" of French colonialism, i.e. uplifting the natives. (The decree was later rescinded.) Like a certain other nation whose founding principles sprang from the 18th century Enlightenment, France is not shy about its values. As Sarkozy recently observed: "In the United States and France, we think our ideas are destined to illuminate the world...
...Various Bush Administration officials - though none in the White House - have told me that a troop withdrawal is the best leverage we have for shoving the Iraqis into a national-reconciliation deal. But Levin made troop withdrawal a condition for continued funding of the war, which is a kamikaze mission. The bill couldn't muster the votes necessary to overcome a filibuster, much less the inevitable Bush veto. Indeed, with Iraq calmer for the moment, Democrats probably have fewer votes for ending the war than they did last spring. And their continued indulgence in these futile, symbolic gestures conveys...
...They think the online spike is likely caused by the potential bride's ultimatum: If she's going to bring her boyfriend home to meet the parents, she had better not be going empty handed. But as the only man in this particular debate, I subscribe to a research-mission theory that I call: "I don't want to get ripped-off at the jewelry store." I think the name is pretty self-explanatory...
...term I came up with is that we are ‘out of balance,’” Casey said. He added that the U.S. military is still the best in the world, but that “we are so consumed by the current mission that we cannot sustain and prepare our forces to do other things.” Casey, who was humorous at times, impressed some in the audience with his candor. “It was very surprising that he seemed very non-military, civilian easy-going,” said Henry Charrab?...
...That is a messy process involving multiple meetings between Bush and his top advisors and numerous discussions between staffers at State, the White House, the Pentagon and the CIA. So far, Negroponte's first goal on the mission this weekend is to try and salvage the prospect of power sharing between Musharraf and Benazir Bhutto. But aides are quietly acknowledging that the U.S. needs to think beyond both those flawed figures...