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A Cure Worse than the DiseaseBy Ted Galen Carpenter July 11th, 2006Reaction Essay Reuel Marc Gerecht provides a provocative analysis of the Iran problem that continues to bedevil U.S. foreign policy. Iran would be at or near the top of a list of countries Americans would least like to see have nuclear weapons, and the reason for apprehension has deepened dramatically in the past year with the emergence of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Ultimately, though, Gerecht's policy prescription--preventive military action to eliminate (or more accurately, to delay) Tehran's nuclear program is a classic case of a cure that is worse...

A REPORT BY the Work Foundation has discovered that stupid people don't understand computers and harass IT support if anything goes wrong. And worse than that, they don't understand the replies the IT support people give them which must mean they're really dumb. According to the report, managers in the UK are the dumbest of all constituting a "lost generation" because they didn't grow up "immersed in technology". The year long study talked to a number of companies across the UK of widely different sizes. The report says human ingenuity often overcomes shortcomings in tech systems, with "people plugging the...

    March 19, 2003, 9:20 a.m. Casualties of Enlightenment Peace (of mind) at any price. By Adam G. Mersereau he more we hear from the antiwar movement, the more evident it becomes that the antiwar movement is not entirely antiwar. War and the brutal killing of innocent people per se do not seem to offend many of the opponents of the pending military action in Iraq. After all, it is Saddam Hussein who is courting war by his defiance of U.N. resolutions and the peace accord that ended the first Gulf War; it is Saddam Hussein who harbors terrorists...