Word: progressives
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...executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which, as Ground Zero's landlord, is just one of the 19 government bureaucracies with a say in rebuilding the World Trade Center. On Monday he gave New York governor David Paterson a progress report. The best thing to do, he said over 34 pages, is scrap the budget and timeline for the whole project...
What's at stake? Rebuilding Ground Zero was going to be America's statement of defiance to those who attacked us, our Knute Rockne speech to the nation. Seven years later, the lack of progress isn't just keeping us from rising from the rubble in downtown Manhattan. It's showing why we're lagging in the next great challenge to American power...
...After my wife's call, I felt like lighting a votive candle to Russian progress: In Gogol's time, there were no cell phones to keep one abreast of the healing powers of the broken roads - just one of the daily miracles that keep this country going, sometimes against considerable odds. That may be why, even a century and a half after Gogol first complained about Russia's roads, expecting them to be repaired - well, that would simply be foolish...
...What the U.S. did get, though, was real progress on a long-standing aim - the destruction of the Yongbyon nuclear facility, where North Korea's plutonium has been produced. The 1994 deal agreed by the Clinton Administration required that nuclear work at Yongbyon be verifiably frozen, but the new deal requires that the plant be incapacitated. On Friday the North Koreans blew up the facility's cooling tower and they have also committed to destroying, under international monitoring, the other functioning parts of the plant...
True patriotism, in our view, means "country before self." And unpacking "country before self" yields a set of moral principles like stewardship, mutual obligation, shared sacrifice, service to others, and contribution before consumption. These principles are inherently progressive - not in the euphemistic sense of being left-wing but in the literal sense of expressing what it takes to make progress toward fulfilling America's stated ideals...