But that resilience and those achievements may have set a trap for us, by encouraging the American leadership class to draw relatively narrow lessons from the Iraq war — lessons that only apply to wars premised on faulty W.M.D. intelligence, or wars led by Donald Rumsfeld.
Though the Deutsches Haus was shut during the war — its premises were used as part of the Columbia War Hospital — the French link flourished, with the university awarding honorary doctorates to Marshal Ferdinand Foch, the supreme commander of the Allied forces, and to Prime Minister Aristide Briand in 1921.
David Sterritt of The Christian Science Monitor felt that the film veered away from the intriguing Cold War allegory premise to unsatisfying results.
The Democrats never impeached W. and they had real grounds: starting a war on false premises and sanctioning torture.
Extraterritoriality extends to foreign states or international organizations as entities and to their heads, legations, troops in passage, war vessels, mission premises, and other assets.
"Representing to the American people that the two had an operational partnership and posed a single, indistinguishable threat was fundamentally misleading and led the nation to war on false premises," Mr. Rockefeller wrote.
The press is apparently free to work in cahoots with government officials to take the country to war on false premises; and the sources a journalist is willing to go to jail to protect include government officials apparently engaged in disinformation campaigns.
The Nazis won the war is the premise – not a particularly new premise: Deighton's SS-GB, Harris's Fatherland, other smallers – but this time it's America that has been overrun, and now split, in 1962, between the "Greater Nazi Reich" (east coast) and the "Japanese Pacific states" (California mainly), with an unresolved Rocky Mountains hinterland inbetweenster.
"Today's hearing," Mr. Levin said, "is about another example of the lack of planning for a war that was premised on the assumption that combat operations would be swift, casualties would be minimal and that we would be welcomed as liberators instead of being attacked by the people we liberated".
Its central premise — war between humans and rebel robots — is founded on moral ambiguity.
