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" Wid that we wint aff to the widdy 's , next door , and ye may well say it was an illigant place ; so it was . Wilson , this is your property . To sum up , I want to emphasize that my research in this area tries to understand why the U.S. and Europe are different . It has about as much sway - - and here I would agree with Senator Hagel - - within the borders of its historic enemy , Iraq , as do we at this time . It was very different from the plan that any one of us would have designed by ourselves , but nonetheless all three of us think it ’ s a substantial improvement over doing nothing . Imagination , feeling herself for once unshackled , roamed at will among the ever-changing wonders of a shadowy and unstable land . First of all it was up wid the windy in a jiffy , and thin she threw open her two peepers to the itmost , and thin it was a little gould spy-glass that she clapped tight to one o ' them , and divil may burn me if it did n't spake to me as plain as a peeper cud spake , and says it , through the spy-glass — " Och ! " Thrue for you , Sir Pathrick , " it said as plain as iver a squaze said in the world , " Thrue for you , Sir Pathrick , mavourneen , and it 's a proper nate gintleman ye are - - that 's God 's truth , " and with that she opened her two beautiful peepers till I belaved they wud ha ' cum 'd out of her hid althegither and intirely , and she looked first as mad as a cat at Mounseer Frog , and thin as smiling as all out o ' doors at mesilf . Rather than focus on each individual as an island unto him or herself , the US needs to focus on fostering clusters of innovation – such as Silicon Valley in information technology , Boston in the life sciences , New York in finance – where each talented individual derives his or her strength from all that is around . To insert ourselves militarily in a country and a region with this type of history and mythology was bound to cause problems and ignite an insurgency no matter what the troop number count . And then ounly percave the cuteness of the swate angel , for no sooner did she obsarve that I was afther the squazing of her flipper , than she up wid it in a jiffy , and put it away behind her back , jist as much as to say , " Now thin , Sir Pathrick O'Grandison , there 's a bitther chance for ye , mavourneen , for it 's not altogether the gentaal thing to be afther the squazing of my flipper right full in the sight of that little furrenner Frinchman , Mounseer Maiter-di-dauns . " Is it there ye are ? Therein perhaps lies a terrible metaphor for American policy and the American people : what we have wrought in Iraq is unbearable to watch , and consequently we will allow ourselves to look only at edited realities that are not too upsetting . And by and by she gived me such a swate smile , from one ind of her mouth to the ither , that it made me as bould as a pig , and I jist took hould of the ind of her little finger in the most dillikitest manner in natur , looking at her all the while out o ' the whites of my eyes . " Is it there ye are , Mounseer Maiter-di-dauns ? " And it 's not meself ye wud have to be bate in the purliteness ; [ page 185 :] so I made her a bow that wud have broken yur heart althegither to behould , and thin I pulled aff me hat with a flourish , and thin I winked at her hard wid both eyes , as much as to say — " Thrue for you , yer a swate little crature , Mrs. I was making up me mind whither it would n't be the purlite thing to sind a bit o ' writing to the widdy by way of a love-litter , when up cum 'd the delivery sarvant wid an illigant card , and he tould me that the name on it ( for I niver cud rade the copper-plate printing on account of being lift handed ) was all about Mounseer , the Count , A Goose , Look-aisy , Maiter-didauns , and that the houl o ' the divilish lingo was the spalpeeny long name of the little ould furrener Frinchman as lived over the way . The Medicare program is a good program , and it ’ s a good thing that we have this program . Most devoutly do I hope for and desire the sustaining influence of their sympathies and of their supplications to heaven in my behalf and in behalf of this Institution . At the hearin ' of this , ye may swear , though , I was as mad as a grasshopper , but I remimbered that I was Sir Pathrick O'Grandison , Barronitt , and that it was n't althegither gentaal to lit the anger git the upper hand o ' the purliteness , so I made light o ' the matter and kipt dark , and got quite sociable wid the little chap , and afther a while what did he do but ask me to go wid him to the widdy 's , saying he wud give me the feshionable inthroduction to her leddyship . There can be no doubt that Lady Dacre is a writer of infinite genius , possessing great felicity of expression , a happy talent for working up a story , and , above all , a far more profound and philosophical knowledge of the hidden springs of the human heart , and a greater skill in availing herself of that knowledge , than any of her female contemporaries .