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...pointless for American generals to bleat about Iraqi irregulars not wearing uniforms or hiding behind civilians; this is what guerrillas have always done. ("The guerrilla must move among the people as a fish swims in the sea," said Mao.) Our leaders in uniform would serve us better if they explained that, increasingly, guerrilla wars are the ones we will have to fight...
...figures shock Currie for another reason, that is, that a whopping 50% of all American wage earners pay no income tax because they couldn’t possible pay it? That half of all American workers earn so little that the government has figured out it’s pointless trying to shake them down for their “fair share” of all the benefits the government supplies us with: the cost of negotiating and administrating NAFTA, of the CIA toppling foreign governments on behalf of their vital business interests, of a military whose budget is greater...
...Recruit is either one of the most pointless spy movies ever made or a poignant masterpiece of existential angst...
...forced to waste their precious time solely to prove themselves committed enough to merit a good grade? A Harvard education should be about challenging the brightest students of their generation to realize their intellectual potential. And that can only come about when professors cut down on the quantity of pointless class requirements in order to increase the quality of meaningful work produced...
...Pointless Alarm...