Word: argumentative
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...wrote in a recent New York Times piece, “perhaps the best argument against capital punishment may be that it is an issue beyond the limited capacity of government to get things right...
Diamond contends that the history of humanity unfolded around the globe as it did not because of inherent cultural or racial differences, but due to geography. In a meticulously substantiated argument, he suggests that both Europeans and Asians rose to dominance due to their abundance of plants and animals suitable for domestication, and that the east-west orientation of the continent facilitated the spread of such animals and crops between societies...
From one room comes a female voice, loud and anguished, close to tears. Next door, a deep bass voice sings scales to the plinking of a piano. And from the opposite end of the hallway, a couple is immersed in an argument, the girl indignant and the guy glibly trying to calm...
...political argument can be made even without nukes, on the basis that Saddam's chemical and biological stocks could be shared with terrorists. Hard to argue with as a hypothetical possibility, but in the minds of Powell's domestic audience, the case for war is strongest when the administration is able to show a link between Iraq and al-Qaeda. After all, it's unlikely that America would be on the verge of starting a massive new war in the Gulf were it not for September 11. Still, despite considerable effort to unearth such links the pickings are decidedly slim...
...presentation began with U.S. evidence purporting to show Iraq systematically evading and deceiving UN inspectors. Then he restated for the record the known and chilling inventory of Iraq's unaccounted-for stocks of biological and chemical weapons, presented allegations by defectors of continuing programs and offered a circumstantial argument pointing to a clandestine nuclear program. Finally, he tried to make a case that such weapons programs represent an imminent threat to the West on the basis of an alleged link between Iraq and al-Qaeda...