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I'm glad to report that I've been joined in this cause by some important allies--George Packer in the New Republic (and I understand he has another piece on the subject planned for the New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 Times magazine), Senator Edward Kennedy in the Washington Post, Gina Chon and Joel Millman in the Wall Street Journal, and two alumni of this magazine, Robert Worth in the New York Times, and David Ignatius David R. Ignatius (born May 26, 1950), an American journalist and novelist. He is currently an associate editor and columnist for the Washington Post. He also co-hosts PostGlobal, an online discussion of international issues at Washingtonpost.  in the Washington Post. Worth's piece (which was cowritten by Sabrina Tavernise Sabrina Tavernise (born in Hartford, Connecticut[1]) is an American journalist who is currently the Istanbul bureau chief of The New York Times. She previously reported for the Times from Iraq, Lebanon[2] and Russia[3]. ) was sufficiently impressive that the New York Times made it its lead story on the front page. And Ignatius was devastating dev·as·tate  
tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates
1. To lay waste; destroy.

2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark.
 in his detailed account of the friends we left behind in South Vietnam, many of them to die at the hands of their communist enemies.
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Title Annotation:Tilting at windmills
Author:Peters, Charles
Publication:Washington Monthly
Date:Mar 1, 2007
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