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War designed to fit a theory, as the Bush administration learned last week, can falter when key assumptions don't pan out. After months of selling its case, the Administration gave the impression it had devised a Teflon war: quick, easy, relatively bloodless. War boosters predicted that Iraq's leadership...
But "shock and awe" has failed to deliver a knockout blow thus far. Punishing strikes damaged trappings of Saddam's power but failed to crack the regime. The thunderous barrage didn't break ordinary Iraqis either. Saddam's ghostly appearances on national television convinced his citizens--if not Washington--that...
“This is fundamentally about resources. With the war and terrorism, we have learned why it’s important to save for a rainy day,” Sperling said.
“At Chicago, I learned that no one should be embarassed to use the word community” Kagan said. “At Harvard Law School...building community is a prerequisite to accomplishing many of our most important goals in the future.”
How I Learned to Write Backwards