Letters to the Editor

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The first lesson of Iraq: Beware of those who play dice with God.
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    Corrections:

    *Making war is like playing dice with the Devil -- using his dice.

    *To put it in Catholic terms, it is the cardinal sin -- the sin of pride.

    *And just like the crowd in the fairy tale, the country went along.

    *We won our proxy war against our Cold War foe, but in the process created another enemy, the Taliban, who were eventually to shield Al Qaeda.

    *The Saud dynasty could lose its grip on power, with devastating consequences for the global economy, albeit with fantastic liberating consequences for the people living under their despotic regime.

    *And if Musharraf falls in Pakistan there would be yet another unstable nuclear-armed regime.

    *The ultimate responsibility rests with the people who elected Bush.

    A decent enough article, hamstrung by the gaffes and errors above (and others requiring too much explanation that I didn't flag) which vary in severity from trivial to mind-boggling.

    Who was playing editor when this one went through the process?