Word: thoughtful
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...case of Iraq, he unquestionably thought the world would be a better and a safer place without Saddam Hussein. It was his view long before 9/11, but his words just three weeks after the 2001 attacks are worth recalling. "The kaleidoscope has been shaken," he said. "The pieces are in flux. Soon they will settle again. Before they do, let us reorder this world around us." Clearly, regime change was not a concept that Blair woke up to only in 2003. By the time President George W. Bush's determination to remove Saddam by force was fixed, I suspect Blair...
...right, Blair thought then - and believes just as strongly now - that his position on the war was morally sound and that the arguments he used to defend it were morally justifiable. It might be better if he were able to say that to the Iraq inquiry next week, but he's extremely unlikely to do so. It would be interpreted, with some justification, as evidence from his own mouth that he lied. Winston Churchill famously declared that in wartime "truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." But that argument would not excuse...
...invoked nonexistent terrorism emergencies to illegally obtain more than 2,000 U.S. telephone records, according to the Washington Post. FBI general counsel Valerie Caproni called the bureau's methods, which included issuing approvals after the fact and persuading phone companies to release records, "good-hearted but not well thought...
...Nigerian politics, as northern politicians line up behind Yar'Adua and southerners call for his replacement with Jonathan. And while the riots and killings in the northern city of Jos - at least 200 people died after a group of Muslims attacked Christians leaving church on Jan. 17 - are not thought to be directly connected to the political crisis, they underline how explosive the religious divide...
...that smugness we all know and love—isn’t working quite as well as everyone had hoped. In fact, it seems like it’s taken Princeton students six years to realize that their special grading policy translates into lower GPAs. Who would have thought...