| 1 | This has been a very tough decade for the United States. | |
| 2 | Getting to global zero will be arduous, but it can be done. | |
| 3 | Aziz had just returned from another court hearing inside Baghdad's green zone, where the ghosts of Iraq under Saddam are being exorcised in a series of painstaking trials. | |
| 4 | In the face of our common dangers, in this winter of our hardship, let us remember these timeless words. | |
| 5 | Of course, this can go wrong, as demonstrated by the sadomasochism of the recent debt-ceiling wrangle. |