“War was waged … to prevent Iraq’s WMD from being transferred to people and groups who would use them against Americans. But the war plan included no schemes to prevent that from occurring.”
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False hurrah.
“You wanted a quick, clear victory, and you got it. But don’t flatter yourself. You haven’t changed the world in 19 months. You’ve only changed the subject.”
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More than words.
Neither Christian faith nor liberal principles requires us to embrace weakness, passivity, or even dependency on persuasion without an ultimate appeal to legitimate kinds of coercion.
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Planitarchis.
“Without the United States, the world cannot act on the global scale that a shrinking world and an expanding world population require.”
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Paul Berman watch.
Reviews of and by the author of “Terror and Liberalism.”
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Mother Jones review.
George Packer identifies four habits of the besieged mind, coping strategies that also keep us from thinking clearly.
“A rump group of our colleagues put these words — words that we find loathsome — into our mouths.”
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Reconciliation.
The story of the Amy Biehl Foundation in South Africa.
David Little will speak about James Luther Adams at Harvard Divinity School.
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Oil futures.
The Bush administration assumed that oil would figure into their geopolitical plans in a way that it simply can’t — and that this is evidence of a major foreign policy blunder.