Word: americanizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hour with Patrick Clawson, the director for research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and Rania Masri, the coordinator of the Iraq Action Coalition. "Discussed" might be a bit too euphemistic for the polite attempt to maintain any semblance of decorum that ensued. Exchanging charges of American obstinance and anti-Islamic biases with claims of Iraqi corruption and noncompliance, the guests agreed on very little except the dire state of the average Iraqi family--especially its women and children...
When children die and people suffer, both the Iraqi and American governments have blood on their hands. To argue who is more culpable--to see whether sanctions are stifling resistance to oppression or creating it--is, in the end, missing the point. The people in Iraq will suffer and die while negotiations continue back and forth. As responsible human beings, we must ask if an open-ended international game of chicken is what is best for our fellow human beings unlucky enough to live in Iraq...
There must be a delicate balance, a distinction between being a source of international justice and merely policing based on one's own agenda. American foreign policy over the past decade, and through it the actions of the United Nations have been frighteningly stopgap, often forced to make ultimatums when a situation springs full-form onto the international stage as a crisis no longer waiting to happen...
...must consider if the solution will lie in working with Saddam for his people and not continuing to fail to work against him. American foreign policy seems to make a choice between the battle against tyranny, terrorism and militarization, and the war against disease, infection and without concern for borders. The United States, hearkening back to the founding of the United Nations it so proudly hosted in San Francisco a half-century ago, must choose to do both, and make a priority of human life and dignity for the greatest number--with any potential partners...
...neighbors on Read Block, Pacific Sunwear and Finagle-a-Bagel, are two other new additions to the Square. TGIFriday's American Bar and Peet's Coffee, as well as a series of expensive high-rise condominiums, are either here...