I would caution anyone who thinks the solution is to get out to realize that Iraq will be our problem, whether we're there or not, for years to come. It will not be Vietnam; it will not let us go home and lick our wounds.
Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy. - George Packer
Inequality hardens society into a class system. Inequality divides us from one another... Inequality undermines democracy.
- George Packer
At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on … - George Packer
At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on …
The Petraeus-Crocker testimony is the kind of short-lived event on which the Administration has relied to shore up support for the war: the 'Mission … - George Packer
The Petraeus-Crocker testimony is the kind of short-lived event on which the Administration has relied to shore up support for the war: the 'Mission …
Since I was a kid. I had this series by Ballantine Books about the history of World Wars I and II. In my 20s, it was the Vietnam War literature of no… - George Packer
Since I was a kid. I had this series by Ballantine Books about the history of World Wars I and II. In my 20s, it was the Vietnam War literature of no…
Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumst… - George Packer
Ideology knows the answer before the question has been asked. Principles are something different: a set of values that have to be adapted to circumst…
We have all the information in the universe at our fingertips, while our most basic problems go unsolved year after year...All around, we see dazzlin… - George Packer
We have all the information in the universe at our fingertips, while our most basic problems go unsolved year after year...All around, we see dazzlin…
Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland … - George Packer
Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland …
Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logi… - George Packer
Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logi…
We will have a more just society as soon as we want one. - George Packer
We will have a more just society as soon as we want one.
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