the Iraqi government would not extend the status of forces agreement. Now, because the civil war between Shi'ites and Sunnis continued after our departure, ISIS controls much of Iraq. And while the President still opposes US ground forces, he has also adopted the consensus view that we must eliminate ISIS--something we clearly do not have the power to do. And thus, step by step, he inserting US forces back into Iraq. Our new deployments have echoes of Vietnam in 1962: while they are touted as advisory, most of the forces we are sending are not advisers at all, but will provide logistical support and protect the advisers. Only time will tell whether they, like the forces that went to Vietnam in 1962, will also prepare the way for2008 (evidently a painful moment for both of them) to the effect that while the glass ceiling around the White House remained in place, it now had about 18 million cracks (presumably the number of votes she had received in primaries),. and the day when it would fall was coming nearer. Covert notes that Congress is still only 20% female, which clearly troubles her, but spends most of her time talking about trends at the highest levels of the corporate world. Progress getting women onto corporate boards, she notes, has been slow,and although women have been appointed as CEOs, this frequently happens only when a company is in serious trouble, not when times are flush. She assumes, without any evidence that the reason for this is simple: America