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Exit Strategies Are for Losers Robert Byrd and Tom Daschle have been thoroughly beat up already for decrying—Byrd explicitly and Daschle implicitly—the Bush administration's lack of an "exit...
...During this holiday, the Jew must prepare very special pastries, the filling of which is not only costly and rare—it cannot be found at all on the local and international markets...
...Or, the victim's veins can be slit in several places, letting his blood drain from his body...
...His writings for us constituted an extended argument in defense of traditional marriage, and against the fashionable project of redefining marriage to include same-sex unions...
...it was a strategy plain and simple that was lacking...
...David Allen Coolidge Jr., 1956-2002 Readers will remember the byline of David Coolidge, which, sadly, will not grace these pages again...
...Exit Strategies Are for Losers Robert Byrd and Tom Daschle have been thoroughly beat up already for decrying—Byrd explicitly and Daschle implicitly—the Bush administration's lack of an "exit strategy" in the war on terrorism...
...But it's really a synonym for an orderly retreat, or, as the Vietnam-era version had it, declaring victory and going home...
...In contrast, for the Passover slaughtering . . . the blood of Christian and Muslim children under the age of 10 must be used, and the cleric can mix the blood before or after dehydration...
...We trust Vice President Cheney has been enjoying his Middle East tour...
...It became the euphemism of choice for dismantling unprofitable businesses during the leveraged-buyout craze of the 1980s...
...Nor can anyone, with assurance, assess the probability in this year, or another, of deadly biological or chemical agents being introduced simultaneously (say, through ventilation systems) into multiple office buildings and manufacturing plants...
...The company must now make two kinds of decisions...
...The goal of U.S...
...We are proud to have published him, and devastated that he has parted from us so young...
...they can also be saved for the next holiday...
...That distinction belongs to Bob Dole, in his losing 1988 race for the Republican presidential nomination...
...There can be no checkmate against hydra-headed foes...
...Fear may recede with time, but the danger won't—the war against terrorism can never be won...
...Their Democratic colleague Joe Lieberman's rebuke is the pithiest: "We need a victory strategy, not an exit strategy...
...In any event, the Somalia problem wasn't about the lack of an "exit strategy...
...Yet another reason to banish talk of "exit strategies...
...Powell spun it as a synonym for pru-dence—don't get into something unless you know how you're going to get out of it...
...So to help our readers better understand U.S...
...Unfortunately, this filling cannot be left out, or substituted with any alternative serving the same purpose...
...The blood is spilled in a special way...
...this is a kind of barrel, about the size of the human body, with extremely sharp needles set in it on all sides...
...Thanks to the debacle in Somalia, "exit strategy" became the foreign policy buzzword of 1993—a favorite phrase of both Secretary of State Warren Christopher and of Colin Powell, then chairman of the Joint Chiefs...
...The best the nation can achieve is a long succession of stalemates...
...Which is, of course, a major American "ally" in the Middle East...
...b. The probabilities are increasing, in an irregular and immeasurable manner, as knowledge and materials become available to those who wish us ill...
...I choose to [speak] about the Jewish holiday of Purim, because it is connected to the month of March...
...Let us now examine how the victims' blood is spilled...
...The term mostly stayed in the business-jargon ghetto for the next decade...
...For this holiday, the Jewish people must obtain human blood so that their clerics can prepare the holiday pastries...
...An attack like that would produce astronomical workers' compensation claims...
...These needles] pierce the victim's body, from the moment he is placed in the barrel...
...His blood is taken and dried into granules...
...We had dimly remembered that the phrase started out as Biz School jargon...
...The final margin in Illinois was 19 points, and while Dole went through the motions of carrying on, his mind was on what he had begun to call the 'exit strategy'—a way to get out with as much leverage and as many options as he could preserve"—Newsweek, Nov...
...The problem is, "exit strategies" are for losers...
...And its first documented political use...
...How is it done...
...For this, a needle-studded barrel is used...
...The first relates to both the entrance and the exit strategies for a specific market...
...Thus, the victim suffers dreadful torment—torment that affords the Jewish vampires great delight as they carefully monitor every detail of the blood-shedding with pleasure and love that are difficult to comprehend...
...foreign policy, not to put a fine point on it, should be to induce panicked discussion of "exit strategies" among our enemies, not to have such discussions ourselves...
...Here's what we do know: a. The probability of such mind-boggling disasters, though likely very low at present, is not zero...
...After this barbaric display, the Jews take the spilled blood .. . and the Jewish cleric makes his coreligionists completely happy on their holiday when he serves them the pastries in which human blood is mixed...
...What we also need, though, is an exit strategy for the "exit strategy" cliché, which has outlived its usefulness...
...Warren Buffett on Terrorism The annual letter to shareholders by Warren Buffett, chairman of the legendary Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate, is always an event in the business press...
...The piece appeared on March 10 in Al-Riyadh, an official daily newspaper published by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia...
...These needles do the job, and the victim's blood drips from him very slowly...
...So basically we're talking about a concept that began as a highfalutin way to discuss going-out-of-business sales...
...21, 1988...
...Doing that in the case of terrorism, however, could literally bankrupt the industry...
...And indeed, the first Nexis mention of it comes in the March 1979/April 1979 issues of the Harvard Business Review in an article called "The Dynamics of Process-Product Life Cycles...
...There is another way to spill the blood: The victim can be slaughtered as a sheep is slaughtered, and his blood collected in a container...
...As you might imagine of a man who tackled this subject with unbending principle, he was uncommonly brave...
...Insurers have always found it costly to ignore new exposures...
...For this holiday, the victim must be a mature adolescent who is, of course, a non-Jew—that is, a Christian or a Muslim...
...Umayma Ahmad Al-Jalah-ma of King Faisal University...
...What follows are extended excerpts from an essay by Dr...
...No one knows the probability of a nuclear detonation in a major metropolis this year (or even multiple detonations, given that a terrorist organization able to construct one bomb might not stop there...
...The cleric blends these granules into the pastry dough...
...Return of the Blood Libel In support of its broader foreign policy goals and the war on terrorism, the Bush administration is currently conducting a major make-nice outreach campaign with the Arab world—and castigating Israel for its "counterproductive" and "excessive" reaction to the ongoing Palestinian intifada...
...This year, because of the corporation's heavy involvement in the insurance business, it's worth perusing for its discussion of terrorism and risk...
...interests in the region, The Scrapbook thought it might be worthwhile to go directly to the source...
Vol. 7 • March 2002 • No. 27
