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...very different message. To us, its lyrics evoked a feeling that we must never again stand by quietly while those ignorant of and casual about war lead us into another one and then mismanage the conduct of it. Never again, we thought, would our military's senior leaders remain silent as American troops were marched off to an ill-considered engagement. It's 35 years later, and the judgment is in: the Who had it wrong. We have been fooled again...
...were peripheral to the real threat--al-Qaeda. I retired from the military four months before the invasion, in part because of my opposition to those who had used 9/11's tragedy to hijack our security policy. Until now, I have resisted speaking out in public. I've been silent long enough...
...same courses they take to get credit for a secondary field. But the professors involved in the debate were soon ensconced in procedural confusion, while some of their colleagues became visibly frustrated that the debate was moving slowly. As discussion became bogged down, Summers, who has been nearly silent at recent Faculty meetings, took a vocal and commanding presence as he urged professors to move to a vote. “May I make a suggestion to you all?” the president interjected at one point, calling on professors to vote on Burgard’s amendment...
...discussion became bogged down, Summers, who had been nearly silent at recent Faculty meetings, took a vocal and commanding presence today as he urged professors to move to a vote...
...There he stood, implausibly resolute in his thin white shirt, an unknown Chinese man facing down a lumbering column of tanks. For a moment that will be long remembered, the lone man defined the struggle of China's citizens. 'WHY ARE YOU HERE?' HE SHOUTED AT THE SILENT STEEL HULK. 'YOU HAVE DONE NOTHING BUT CREATE MISERY. My city is in chaos because of you.' The brief encounter between the man and the tank captured an epochal event in the lives of 1.1 billion Chinese: the state clanking with menace, swiveling right and left with uncertainty, is halted...