Obama's team made little secret of their intention to win broad support for his stimulus plan - an effort that yielded three Republican votes in the Senate and none in the House.
The failings of a rote-memorization system are well-known: lack of social and practical skills, absence of self-discipline and imagination, loss of curiosity and passion for learning.
Iran was our biggest enemy. We had to defy them whatever the cost. Now Iran is building a weapons programme. Everybody knows it and nobody is doing anything. Why?
But the design is obvious, the purpose of selling so much to regulate civil aviation market, to protect the interests of formal agency, as it is to protect their own interests.
These machinations lie behind all that has happened from the beginning of this century onwards, and as anyone can see, these attempts have all met with failure!