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When White House spokesman Ari Fleischer was asked who at the moment was in charge in Iraq, he answered, "The taste of freedom." The sudden, gaping absence of a police state produced a spectacle of chaos magnified by the presence of a thousand cameras to capture it. As looters rolled...
That's not how the theologians predicted the campaign would unfold. The theory was that the initial display of military might by U.S. warplanes and ground troops would "shock and awe" the Iraqi military and high-ranking officials into the conviction that resistance was futile. The despot's regime, Administration...
RESIGNED. RICHARD PERLE, 61, as chairman of the Defense Policy Board, which advises the Pentagon; amid criticism of his business ties, including one with Global Crossing, which had retained the hawkish Perle to help gain Pentagon approval of its sale to an Asian venture; in Washington. While denying any conflict...
This raises the larger, more distressing political question. The Bush Administration has seemed to hurtle thoughtlessly toward this moment of truth, in a lather of righteous arrogance and dim-witted machismo. From the start of his Administration, the President has made clear his skepticism about diplomatic niceties. "We've scared...
America's past imperial ventures, to be sure, have generally been less venal and exploitative than those of the Europeans. And the Bush Administration has disavowed any intention of becoming an imperial power of the traditional kind. Even Richard Perle, the Pentagon adviser who for years has argued for regime...