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...could rebuild their nation into an economic dynamo, just as Japan did after World War II. A united Iraq would have no fear of external threats and would be able to fend off Islamo-fascism from within and without. Baghdad was once the cradle of civilization, and it can rise from the ashes of war and tyranny to become great again...
Instead of asking whether it makes any sense to send more troops to Iraq, you should have asked whether it made sense to send troops in the first place. Even a complete idiot could see that the removal of Saddam Hussein would give rise to civil war and a bloody Shi'ite takeover. We have wasted more than $350 billion, lost another war, caused more than 50,000 civilian deaths in Iraq, reduced the country to anarchy and incurred the hatred of much of the world. And now we're proposing to continue on this insane course...
...manuscript or parchment that has been written on more than once, so that the earlier writing has been scraped away but still sometimes remains faintly visible. Translated into design terms, palimpsest stands for the idea that, given a chance, the history of a place can and will rise from its grave. It's the notion, for instance, behind a persistent argument in Berlin, where architects, city planners and ordinary citizens periodically squabble over how much of the footprint of the Berlin Wall should be remembered along the streets of the quickly redeveloping united city. And it's an idea fundamental...
...ways. All the while it draws those views into a complex fabric of references to the city. So by narrowing and widening the routes, for instance, the designers create false perspectives that recall airport landing paths, an illusion they've underlined along one stretch with a string of low-rise "runway" lights. This is a park that doesn't try to separate nature and civilization. What it does instead is lead you to reflect on how they penetrate each other just about everywhere you go. Maybe somebody should have told Thoreau that if he couldn't get away from...
...Robinson's advice is impeccable, her wit dry and her take on wine refreshingly non-American. Recommending the Montes Reserve Sauvignon Blanc 2005 Casablanca Valley from Chile, she describes it as "quintessentially an aperitif, but if you were to drink it with a well-dressed salad, it would not rise up and bite...