I must confess that I put down this fine book with a feeling of deep disheartenment. For what, after all, is the point of such meticulously reported studies if the American public is repeatedly going to wipe such episodes from its collective consciousness, and the American establishment is going to make similar mistakes over and over again, first in the cold war and now in the "war on terror" — each time covering its actions with the same rhetoric of spreading "freedom" and combating "evil"?-- ANATOL LIEVEN

If you are of first-generation Middle Eastern immigrant parents, you know the situation I am about to describe. I call it "shot-in-the-dark dating"—promulgated in increasingly shorter frequency by none other than your loving parents concerned about your conjugal future.

March 17, 2006 | The Onion

WASHINGTON, DC—Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Monday that escalating violence in Iraq demonstrates that the Iraqi population is now capable of waging the Iraq war without outside military aid, and pronounced the American mission there "a complete success."

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We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men
Leaning together
Headpiece filled with straw. Alas!
Our dried voices, when
We whisper together
Are quiet and meaningless
As wind in dry grass
Or rats' feet over broken glass

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March 6, 2000 | THE NEW YORK TIMES

OFF THE COAST OF MARINA DEL REY, Calif., March 4 -- Remy Bricka is a pleasant man who brings to mind a cheerful uncle who would drop $5 where a kid could find it. "He seems like such a normal guy" is how Alice Leahey, a vice commodore at the California Yacht Club, put it.