Word: wisdoms
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...Powell Doctrine.” He emphasized using “overwhelming force” to subdue any U.S. enemy, with “broad international support” and a “clear exit strategy.” But Rumsfeld ignored years of conventional wisdom by acting under the assumption that advances in military technology can replace a multilateral coalition of real troops and well-delineated contingency plans. In doing so, he essentially used Iraq, a nation of 26 million people, as a laboratorial experiment to corroborate his warped military visions...
...Sullivan's words of wisdom on fundamentalism and spiritual doubt need to be broadcast worldwide. Unfortunately those who are committed to absolutist religious (or political or economic) doctrines are incapable of participating in the kind of open-ended creative problem solving our present world situation requires. Rosalie Taylor Howlett London, Canada...
...importance of security." Just 41% of Virginians in the exit poll said that the war in Iraq was extremely important, compared to 46% who said "values issues" were. These are the kind of numbers that Karl Rove was trying to conjure for every GOP candidate, and, by all conventional wisdom, they should have worked in Allen's favor-Virginia passed an anti-gay marriage amendment, after...
...America, they can use terms like 'changing course' and 'new strategy,' but in Iraq the only thing of interest is how long the American soldiers remain," says a Western diplomat in Baghdad. "The received wisdom here has been that if the Republicans lose, the withdrawal will be speeded up. [Rumsfeld's departure] only confirms that suspicion...
...keeping with the conventional wisdom of most political pundits over the past several weeks, most Harvard students who watched the returns at the IOP election night party predicted that Republicans would lose control of the House but that control of the Senate would be close...