Word: willingness
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One day, long before I came to college or was forced to speak in complete sentences, I was talking to a friend while drinking a full-fat frappacino at Starbucks. “God,” I said, “The early 90s were so wack! Meg Ryan...
And not only neurotic urbanites are willing to imagine what comes after; high and mass culture are on a postapocalyptic kick. Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road is an unflinching tour of an America rendered barbaric by a fiery cataclysm that ends most life on earth. NBC's Heroes depicts...
AUDIO: The Iraqi prime minister has shown once again that he is not willing to crack down seriously on the Shi'ite militias - which means U.S. and Iraqi soldiers are wasting their time and risking their lives
Or else what? As encouraging as it is to hear U.S. officials express impatience with the fecklessness of the Iraqi leadership, what's still missing is any clear and meaningful explanation of what happens when the patience runs out. The only leverage the U.S. has to influence Iraqi behavior is...
So why didn't Casey and Khalilzad do so? Their refusal to utter the "w" word reflects the broader lack of candor that still characterizes our debate about what to do in Iraq. The White House now says it intends to stop using the phrase "staying the course," and Democratic...