Word: shortsightedness
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Columnist Charles Krauthammer's contemptuous dismissal of America's need for allies in today's dangerous world was breathtaking in its neocon unilateralism and arrogance [Jan. 12]. As he scorned the need for traditional U.S. allies, Krauthammer also acknowledged that the "war on many fronts" is consuming American "blood and...
You presented a shortsighted view of the situation in Iraq. Of course coalition troops are endangered, and we are saddened by the loss of soldiers, but what happened to the vision of a free world? Who is going to fight for it if the U.S. doesn't? Should we pay...
“If you’re doing humanities or social sciences research, chances are you’re doing research in Widener or Lamont or Houghton, all of which are a few feet from each other,” says Noah M. McCormack ’04, a...
A decline in crude-oil prices was partly responsible, but a larger factor was a government policy reversal. Although bullish on shale, coal and other synfuels in 1980, Washington soon cooled to the idea, as it had done in the past. After 1980, the Reagan Administration thought private industry, not...
You overestimated the importance of Dean's opposition to the Iraq war. Dean's support isn't made up only of the antiwar left. He appeals to voters because he challenges the cowardly, disastrous strategy that the Democratic Party pursued in the 2002 elections when the party's leaders refused...