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They dominated the ground floor, these fat companies that have made fortunes in the information industry. And everywhere you heard the same story: thanks to "E-commerce"--selling goods and services on the Web--their business is exceeding the rosiest expectations...
Still, it was obvious to even the rosiest fantasts that we couldn't win this war by simple force of arms, that the real battle was for the trust and loyalty of the common man. We knew this, but our anger and fear kept getting the better of us. Why didn't they get behind us? Why didn't they care that we were dying for them? Yet every time we slapped someone around, or trashed a village, or shouted curses from a jeep, we defined ourselves as the enemy and thereby handed more power and legitimacy to the people...
Money and Democracy. Perhaps the rosiest of postwar propositions is that the oil-rich gulf states will share their treasure more generously with the oil- less poor ones. The idea would be to reduce the envy of, and the enmity toward, the rich while alleviating the poverty that is a constant source of instability...
...rosiest predictions for the war's aftermath envision a solution to the Palestinian problem and the emergence of new collective security arrangements that would calm the tempestuous region. The darkest prognoses foresee a Lebanon-like partitioning of Iraq and Jordan and a fueling of nationalist and Islamic extremism that would threaten Western interests and perhaps even bring down moderate Arab regimes. The array of possibilities is bewildering even to those who are leading the war effort. "Some sort of planning needs to be done," conceded Defense Secretary Dick Cheney while appearing before the House Armed Services Committee last December. "Everybody...
Meese may be merely an innocent victim; he has testified before the McKay grand jury five times, answering all questions put to him. Nathan Lewin, one of Meese's personal lawyers, put the rosiest possible hue on McKay's announcement, saying he was "gratified" that the "most thorough investigation ever conducted of the personal finances of a public official . . . had been concluded at this time favorably to Attorney General Meese." Meese's patron, the President, once again asserted his confidence in his Attorney General...