Word: argumentativeness
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...assault on Lebanon is intended to send a broader message too, at a time when Israel has largely given up on trying to negotiate for peace and security and instead is trying to establish them on its own. The strongest argument made by domestic critics of Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip last year was that the country's enemies would think it was weak and frightened and thus would be encouraged to strike out. Olmert's dual counterblasts are aimed at changing that impression--among those who believe it--to make the idea of attacking Israel prohibitively scary...
...message of the ad is simple and, in a democracy at war, legitimate: Let's get rid of the guys who signed off on this. (The fact that some of the guys who signed off were Democrats is an inconvenient subtlety the ad elides.) You can disagree with its argument, but to have that argument in an election--with plain words and, yes, images--is right and necessary...
...most affecting argument against making the coffin photos explicitly political is concern for the families of the dead. But their beliefs about the images--and about the war--are not monolithic, and their interests, sadly, are not the only ones at stake. Just as our troops fight for all of us, they also die for all of us. Families, pundits and pols can disagree on what the flag that shrouds those coffins stands for. But that flag is not, and should never be, a blindfold...
...inaccessibility or irrationality, which is a possible future for an artist. And I think perhaps the fear of outsiders - and by outsiders I mean anyone that?s not me - is that the first sign of being unorthodox is a symptom of this. That?s one side of the argument...
...power in those circumstances, the White House has argued, is the Constitution itself; no laws passed by Congress or treaties ratified by it can limit what the President does. Back when the story of Bush's wiretapping broke in December, the Administration was still holding the line on that argument. And with the politics of the issue on Bush's side - most Americans were more concerned about security than civil liberties - it looked like he might win the fight...