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...election, the bloody mess in Iraq remains George W. Bush's No. 1 responsibility and the one most likely to define his presidential legacy. The British experience occupying the country in the 1920s offers unhappy instruction. That expedition's commander thought he went as a liberator and arrived with scant ground troops. The local leaders the British picked to rule were weak and derided as puppets. Iraqis rebelled with attacks that stunned the occupiers in their ferocity. Ultimately, the occupiers had to use brute military power to crush the insurgency, hoping that stories of men, women and children being killed...
...people will try. Scant weeks after Housewives' launch, NBC bought a seven-year-old script for a series about five families living on a suburban cul-de-sac. Who's got the golden...
...sacrifice in Iraq must be toward this end—the promise of Iraqi democracy—and so far there has been scant evidence that Iraq is moving in that direction. Equally disturbing, neither presidential candidate has offered a realistic plan for succeeding in Iraq. Although we side with Sen. Kerry and believe he ultimately has the best chance of quelling the insurgency and rebuilding Iraq, neither he nor President Bush has offered substantive ideas for bringing about a tenable peace. Defeating insurgents, training Iraqi soldiers and civil servants, and the myriad other sound bites offered by the candidates...
Yale’s boats each won two of their four races on Saturday, combining for a scant 18 points to win the regatta...
...also, regrettably, seen in American coverage of Iraq. The American media immediately and in great detail cover the deaths of American soldiers and constantly replay stories relating to the deaths of American civilian contractors. However, the same news organizations that seem so overly concerned with American lives make scant mention of far larger numbers of Iraqi dead, side-noting casualties that sometimes get into the dozens in just a single...