Word: blame
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is immediately at stake in Washington is the entire military reform movement to humanize the services, and perhaps even the volunteer army. But the problems at sea belong only indirectly to the navy Americans, both in and out of uniform, would be naive to blame Admiral Zumwalt or his officers. The roots of racism, we all know by now, run deeper...
...Kennedy's angry outburst against price rises by U.S. Steel: "My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it until now." A standing political favorite is dichaeologia ("in defense of one's blemished reputation or failings, to place blame on extenuating circumstances, bad information furnished by sly enemies, betrayal by subordinates or former friends"). Champion in this category is the well-known loser of the 1962 California gubernatorial race: "You won't have Nixon to kick around any more." Another master rhetorician, Spiro Agnew, has achieved signal results through...
...neighborhood organization said that Liacos should have locked into high-level misconduct in the events following the death. "No blame for the illegal operations of the Cambridge Police Department is ever placed on Concoran's shoulders," the group said. "We think that Corcoran deserves is much blame as anyone else anyone in this rotten affair...
...blame us for the war. We hate it even more than you. We're the guys that have to go. But look at it this way, there are always going to be wars, so there have to be guys who know how to fight them. That's what we're doing here. Who starts the wars sad why is politics, and we're not interested in that. We just carry out the orders...
...world contains millions of other victims whose struggle is less dramatic than the Vietnam War. And while David Halberstam may be right to say that John Kennedy was too skeptical and shrewd over to permit such a disastrous escalation of the conflict, we cannot blame Lyndon Johnson for every repressive American-supported regime throughout the world. The personality of Lyndon Bolnas Johnson is one reason for the criminal blunder in Vietnam. But the Vietnam War is anomalous only in its failure...