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...later, the power of that day has, if anything, grown, the mythology swollen in movies and memory. We got to embrace an image of our place in the world and its wars that has shaped every fight that followed. The Americans are the ones who ride to the rescue, vanquish the enemy, get hailed as liberators, set everything right and then come home having left a place better than we found it. The facts are never that clean, but the expectation has its own power, and every President who sent soldiers abroad has followed a similar script. Ronald Reagan invoked...
...coast, and when I got there, I saw an armada like a plague of locusts. The number of ships was uncountable, and the Allies' superior firepower was obvious. But in war, what you lose first is reason. I wanted to attack. I wanted to vanquish them...
...assists in Harvard’s Game 1 victory on Friday night—both visionary passes—then slipped the rebound of Dylan Reese’s point shot past the fabled Yann Danis to vanquish the formidable Bears, who had swept the season series with Harvard...
...Iraq is not simply the fact that its Army commander on the ground said as much on Sunday, it's the fact that the U.S. fixed-wing warplanes have conducted a number of bombing raids over the past week. It's not that the Pentagon believes it can vanquish a near-invisible guerrilla army from the skies - the first rule in the guerrilla manual is avoid concentrating your forces and offering a target to your enemy's air power. No, the object of the latest U.S. air strikes was not necessarily even to kill enemy fighters - the residents of some...
...then the rains came, and the hour-long suspension of play seemed to vanquish the Crimson’s momentum. Yet Harvard still finished in sixth place overall with a total combined score of 644, tying the program’s best tournament total ever...