Word: anger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sure what I would do if Congress called for a draft. I would want to resist out of anger, but my resistance would only shift the burden to somebody less well...
...Arab psychology might be dispensable -- a humiliated failure when the Arab cause needed a triumphant hero, not a martyr. But if the battle is prolonged, if Arab casualties mount, if television cameras show the bodies of Iraqi civilians blasted by American bombs, then Arabs will recoil in even greater anger from the U.S. and the others in the coalition. Even in defeat, Saddam could emerge stronger still...
...surprise was surprise itself. After all the months that the war drums had been beating, the opening air and missile onslaught achieved almost complete tactical surprise. American weapons that had never been fired in anger worked as well as if the war were some elaborate training movie. Initial Iraqi resistance was so weak that Air Force Captain Genther Drummond, who took part in the opening assault, remarked, "It was as if we had no adversary." The few unexpected developments were favorable: only scattered anti-American demonstrations broke out in the Arab world rather than the massive pro-Iraqi riots that...
Twenty years ago my memories of America's social temperature kept me in a feverish, high pitch of militant social protest. I led my vocalizing of that anger by expounding on the African Americans' bleak past as the target of tar burnings, rape, castrations, assasinations and the rest...
...they trying to kill our children and not our soldiers?" is a common refrain. All of them are sure that the IDF and the IAF could make short work of the coward who attacks innocents in their homes. "That son of a bitch," one old woman calls him. Anger and indignation, not fear, is the dominant emotion here. In classic Mideastern fashion, people grab me by the shirt lapels as they make their points. Many compare Saddam to Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Like Eichmann, whom the Israelis captured, tried and executed in the '60s, so too would Saddam...