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Apr 30, 2003

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Speculation on wartime xenophobia

It has been alleged that Ambrose Bierce, the author of The Devil's Dictionary, defined war as 'God's way of teaching Americans geography.' He didn't, but the man who defined Wall Street as 'a symbol of sin for every devil to rebuke' would probably have been happy with the attribution.It seems many of our compatriots would not make the dean's list if they took geography. In the second week of the war in Iraq, Congress voted $75 bn for it – and provoked demonstrations in Ljubljana. To

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