NY Observer > Albert Camus http://www.observer.com/taxonomy/term/29207/feed Articles from Observer.com en Clive James’ 20th-Century Tutorial http://www.observer.com/node/36921 Clive James has a high-maintenance girlfriend: the reader.  read more »]]> http://www.observer.com/node/36921#comments Arts & Culture Albert Camus Evelyn Waugh Jean-Paul Sartre Los Angeles Times Sun, 18 Mar 2007 20:00:00 -0400 Regina Marler 36921 at http://www.observer.com At U.S. Naval War College, Scholar Likens Iraq to Plague http://www.observer.com/node/33300 If anyone asks you why this is a great country, tell them this story.

Yesterday the Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, opened its annual conference on international strategy with a speech from the Navy Secretary in a vast hall, followed by a panel on American power composed of three scholars, all of whom had opposed the war in Iraq. Indeed, in the biographical notes that were given out to the audience of officers—men and women wearing their dress whites—one of the scholars stated bluntly that he had written about the "folly of invading Iraq."

For an hour the panelists gave their reasons for why they believe America will remain the most powerful country in the world well into this century, regardless of the morass in Iraq. There were about ten questions. The last one was from a Navy commander named Cladgett from Syracuse, who rose in the middle of the audience.

"My question to the panel is, What is the path to success in Iraq?"  read more »

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