Word: basest
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...COMMONLY noted paradox that war, perhaps the basest of human activities, seems to bring out the best and noblest human qualities: self-lessness, heroism, sacrifice and comradeship. In time of war, soldiers throw themselves on grenades to save their buddies. Civilians willingly endure hardships that they would never accept in peacetime. Even anti-war author Erich Maria Remarque, in All Quiet on the Western Front, praised the "great brotherhood...arising out of the midst of danger, out of the tension and forlorness of death...
...sent a sigh of relief throughout the West. After all, the bipolar world was fraught with tension, ideological antagonism, arms escalations, Soviet human rights violations and American collaboration with vicious right-wing autocracies. It lacked any semblance of a moral foundation. It was pure power politics at its basest...
...footing, there is no absolutely no reason to put our democracy in hock Conservative opposition to debate and dissent is not motivated by military necessity, but by the most venal sort of political opportunism. The insinuation that opponents of war somehow love their country less is one of the basest--and one of the most effective--smears in all of politics...
This is demagogic, defeatist political thinking at its basest. Massachusetts is in the throes of a crisis. Maybe our legislators haven't learned that yet--and that's pathetic. But arbitrarily cutting taxes won't teach them that lesson, either. However, it will widen the state's appalling spending/revenue gap. It will put people out of work. It will put people on the streets. It will deprive people of quality police protection. CLT hurts people...
...Shamir is not the only obstacle to compromise. The gulf crisis has reduced the conflict between Arabs and Jews to its basest level of hatred and anger. Even before the Temple Mount tragedy, moderates on both sides were running for cover as the region's turmoil radicalized the Palestinians and hardened Israeli attitudes. Frustrated by their inability to budge Israel after three years of revolt, many Palestinians have embraced Saddam's militancy on the mistaken theory that they have nothing to lose. In turn, a growing number of Israelis have concluded that Palestinian treachery somehow excuses Israel's occupation...