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LA Times: Editorial: ‘Bush’s doctrine of preemption undermines President John Quincy Adams’ understanding that the United States “goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy”’ (paraphrased).

WaPo: Robin Wright quoting Ted Galen Carpenter: ‘It’s a lesson in hubris. The administration thought it had all the answers, but it found out through painful experience that it did not.’

The New Yorker: Joshua Micah Marshall: ‘Did the Bush Administration create a new American empire — or weaken the old one?’

TPM: Josh interviews George Soros: ‘This administration’s ideology of power and dominance doesn’t work and is profoundly un-American.’

WaPo: Glenn Kessler: ‘Many nations might have been willing to support a war if the administration had been willing to give U.N. weapons inspections a few more weeks, but the administration refused to alter its military timetable.’