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...resolute optimism, some based on naivete, and some that carried unfortunate unintended consequences. The Administration's leading members, said Democratic Senator Joseph Biden last week, "believed we would find an oil-rich, functioning country, that we'd be met by cheering crowds, that all we had to do was sweep out the top Baathist layers, implant our favorite exiles and watch democracy take root as the bulk of the troops returned home by Christmas." Allowing for Bidenesque hyperbole, that is not far off the mark. Bureaucratic infighting, wishful thinking and--at least according to his many rivals--an undue influence...
...country forward," he said. "What's your real strategy for going after al-Qaeda now? Do you continue to take down states? Since we've gobbled up Iraq, why don't you send two divisions into Syria and take Syria out, and then drive over the pass to Beirut, sweep down into the Litani Valley and take out the Hizballah from the rear? It sounds logical, plain, neat and simple, but nothing ever...
...maximum in the fight against terrorism. Almost 500 people have been apprehended by Pakistan. It is in Pakistan's interest to act against all al-Qaeda. We want to do it. Our forces want to do it. Is it possible for us to launch a military operation [to] sweep the whole [tribal] area? I'm afraid that is not within the capability of Pakistan or even of the U.S. forces. Why has the U.S. not succeeded in doing that in Afghanistan? It is not doable. I think it is very convenient to put the failure on Pakistan...
...counts. The band manages to gently expand its repertoire while retaining everything that made Castaways so endearing. Pre-Marxist revolutionary Colin Meloy is still penning dime-novel tales about dissolute seamen, WWI doughboys, a blindfolded “Jewess” and a rascally “chimbley sweep.” The songs verge on Gothic, but only in a literary sense—driven by nostalgia, they sound as if the Decemberists have never heard anything recorded after 1975, let alone a Cure record...
When Gray won the Miss Rhode Island title in April, she was the first in the pageant’s history to sweep all three preliminary competitions. This past weekend she reportedly made Miss America history along with Miss New Hampshire Candace Glickman, by being part of the first finalist group to have two contestants from New England...