But the bigger story lies in the pattern behind the deposits they found.

NEWYORKER: The Martian Chroniclers

Miss Lewinsky testified that when the president brought up the cover story she understood that the two of them would continue their preexisting pattern of deception.

CNN

Rather the story is that in Afghanistan, the US is repeating a sorry pattern of Western nations of not understanding or perhaps not caring that if you are not willing to fight a war to victory, you will lose it.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The western way of war

Rather the story is that in Afghanistan, the US is repeating a sorry pattern of Western nations of not understanding -- or perhaps not caring -- that if you are not willing to fight a war to victory, you will lose it.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The western way of war