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Unnatural death occurs overwhelmingly as a result of ideologically motivated domestic policies enacted with murderous intent or with reckless disregard for human life. After intentional state murder, massive death, poverty and famine result primarily as the unintended consequences of bad policy decisions. But the guilt of regimes often goes unassessed and important historical lessons unlearned...
Bush's decision to make war on Iraq may have been visionary and courageous or reckless and tragic or anything in between, but one thing it wasn't was urgently necessary. For Bush, this war was optional. Events did not impose it on him. Few public voices were egging him on. He hadn't made an issue of the need for "regime change" during the presidential campaign or made it a priority in the early months of his Administration. If he had completely ignored Iraq through the 2004 election, the price would have been a few disappointed Administration hawks...
...leading cause of personal bankruptcy is not wasteful spending or reckless investing but unpaid medical bills. That's surprising, but only until you consider that at any moment some 40 million Americans are without health insurance and another 40 million have experienced a gap in coverage in the past two years. With the slow economy, these disturbing numbers are growing as employers cut jobs and benefits. So it pays to know how to get health insurance outside of your employer, if need be, for yourself and your family...
...Iris, a bookish idler who can't even settle on a topic for her thesis. She surrenders to adultery in part because Daniel's love promises a refuge from judgments, expectations, even the workaday struggle to be black in a white town. Daniel and Iris are given to reckless sex--in his office, at her house when her husband is away but her 4-year-old son is not--that is made more irresistible by the fact that neither of them has made love with a member of the other's race. He's stupefied by her body...
...about this war is the Bush administration’s use (or misuse) of language, its refusal to confront the moral complexities of a situation that makes its moral platitudes irrelevant and irresponsible. As we go barreling into a war that involves regional instability and international discord, it seems reckless to have only two words in our diplomatic arsenal: “good” and “evil.” What happened to “statesmanship” “consensus” “debate” and “community...