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...What American journalists did not do in analyzing the events that propelled their country into deep conflicts at home and abroad, they have started to do now. Things went wrong and are continuing to go wrong under President Bush's management of both global and domestic affairs in large part because the press has not done its job well. Now, journalists who should have done some serious investigative work five years ago are playing catch-up. How much responsibility for this turmoil are the subservient and compliant media prepared to accept? The press alone is not to be blamed...
...asked that we bet hundreds of billions of additional dollars and risk thousands more casualties on the faint hope that we will prevail, despite the conclusion of many Americans that the chances of success are almost nonexistent. Kristol may disagree about the odds, but the neocons have been wrong about everything in the past four years. Why should we believe them...
When it came to moral "reasoning," David Hume emphasized the quotation marks. We like to think our views on right and wrong are rational, he said, but ultimately they are grounded in emotion...
...track--a bystander whose body will bring the trolley to a halt before it hits the others. It's still a one-for-five swap, and you still initiate the action that dooms the one--but now you are more directly implicated; most people say it would be wrong to do this deal. Why? According to Greene's brain scans, the second scenario--the "up close and personal" intervention, he calls it--more thoroughly excites parts of the brain linked to emotion than does the lever-pulling scenario. Apparently the intuitive aversion to giving someone a lethal push is stronger...
...President proposes, and the Congress disposes," the old saying goes, and it suggests that while Presidents take the initiative, the Legislative Branch has the ultimate say. But when it comes to warmaking, that homely aphorism is dead wrong. President Bush has proposed sending more troops to Iraq. In theory, it is now up to Congress to ratify or reject his request. But neither the Constitution's genius nor more than two centuries of experience have managed to make this a contest between equals. As has happened so often in the past, Congress will once again be struggling to punch above...