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...We’re going in first, so it feels like we have a lot to prove,” Brown said at a lunch with Daniels, Tatrallyay, and Cameron just days before leaving for Daytona. “It’s so subjective. It’s all about what they think of our style, costume choice, selection. We could be down a lot by no fault...
...there certainly have been lucky breaks, like the death of Arafat, it seems churlish not to give the Bush Administration some credit for the spread of democracy. Regime change in Iraq has changed the climate in the Middle East by enabling the Iraqi people to defy the insurgency and prove the plausibility of democracy. Even more importantly, Bush shifted away from the U.S.’s previous policy of “pragmatic tolerance” of brutal autocratic regimes, which calcified established political regimes and stillborn reformist efforts. As a foreign policy, cynicism masquerading under the self-congratulatory...
...Moreover, the idea of a U.S. war leader arriving in Baghdad to lecture the new government on what's good for Iraq is, to say the least, somewhat ill-considered. The overriding priority of the new government is to prove that it is independent of the U.S. It's going to face increasing pressure to ask the Americans to leave - even though it still needs them for its own security. The last thing the new Iraqi leadership can afford to be seen doing is snapping to attention when Don Rumsfeld barks commands...
Some Harvard students seem to enjoy having the deck stacked against them. They go out of the way to prove that the other side is too damned rich or strong or unethical. Or they complain that the electorate is too uninformed or uninterested or just plain mean. In both cases they act like it’s us versus them, like some mysterious body (the government or the corporations or the idiot voters) has all the power and we, with all our moral righteousness, just can’t get through...
...victim of another violent crime, our first thoughts are not, “Are they for real?” How is it that only for the most prevalent, violent crime—sexual violence—that we create these undue burdens for survivors to prove that their accusation is legitimate, or that they were not at fault for their assault? A community that is silent, and that does not take a stand to support survivors, is one that allows these incredible emotional, legal, and societal obstacles to silence survivors’ voices...