Though recent developments in Iraq take some of the sting out of this mistake, it was wrong of me (in a Gadfly editorial on March 27) to analogize American teacher unions and ed schools to "Republican Guards," who were, at the time, battling brave U.S. servicemen and women. My point, of course, was that we, too, have institutions devoted to discredited regimes. But this particular analogy was offensive.
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