While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.
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The war on terror, I believe, will be waged by effective intelligence and police work and cruise missiles.
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If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.
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In truth, every American administration since that of Franklin D. Roosevelt has maintained close ties with the Saudi rulers, and for a single, simple reason: oil.
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The United States plays, for the most part, a constructive global role, and to the extent that that role shrinks, other countries, even those most critical of what America does abroad, will suffer.
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The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.
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