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In the summer of 2002, journalist Ron Suskind had a meeting with �a senior advisor� to President George W. Bush (later identified as Karl Rove). �The aide said that guys like me were �in what we call the reality-based community,� which he defined as people who �believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.� I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. �That�s not the way the world really works anymore,� he continued. �We�re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you�re studying that reality � judiciously, as you will � we�ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that�s how things will sort out. We�re history�s actors� and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.�� |
Seventy-one percent of Americans said that the war in Iraq �wasn�t worth it,� a 25 June 2014 NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Annenberg poll shows, with skepticism about the lengthy war effort up substantially even in the previous 18 months. Just 22 percent believed the 2003 war effort was worthwhile. In a January 2013 NBC/Wall Street Journal poll asking the same question, 59 percent of Americans said the war wasn�t worth it, versus 35 percent who said the opposite. Half of respondents in the 2014 poll also said that the United States did not have a responsibility to help the Iraqi government as the country descends into sectarian violence, while 43 percent said that America should intervene. |
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