AUSTIN, Texas -- One thing I have always admired about the U.S. military services is their ability to learn from their mistakes. They have institutionalized this ability in the form of remarkable After Action Reviews, which include...
01 October 2002
AUSTIN, Texas -- I realize it's early days for this sort of thing, but I already have a nomination for dumbest sentence of the decade. You have a mere eight years to top this one, so you'd better get cracking.
I found it in...
I found it in...
26 September 2002
AUSTIN, Texas -- The economy is a mess. We are now in the second dip of a double-dip recession. ("Looks like a W," say the economists, another reason why economists are not famous for their humor.) Six and a quarter trillion dollars has...
24 September 2002
You might remember the old movie "Twelve Angry Men," starring
Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb and E.G. Marshall. Most of the dramatic
film takes place inside a jury room as a dozen people deliberate at
the end of a murder trial. It's...
20 September 2002
BAGHDAD -- When Iraqi deputy prime minister Tariq Aziz described
the box that Washington has meticulously constructed for Iraq, he put it
this way: "Doomed if you do, doomed if you don't."
It would be difficult to...
It would be difficult to...
18 September 2002
AUSTIN, Texas -- (SET ITAL) "What's so interesting is that he's given in at the ideal moment: really early, when it messes us up." -- Kenneth Pollack, an Iraq expert at the Brookings Institute, on Saddam Hussein's agreeing to weapons...
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