Word: blame
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TWENTY years ago the Kerner Commission predicted that our country would soon be stratified into two "separate and unequal" factions if the conditions of the day persisted. This disturbing prediction has become a nightmarish reality, and the presidency of Ronald Reagan is to blame...
...unrest and rebellion? Democrats in Congress like Speaker Jim Wright and Sen. John Kerry who lay all the blame on the White House shouldn't throw War-Powers-Act stones in glass rotundas. They are equally--if not more--to blame as the Reagan Administration for our failure to pursue a coherent foreign policy in an area which was once so secure as to be called "America's backyard". Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Panama show the indecision and weakness that can erupt when the executive and legislative branches refuse to cooperate on foreign relations...
WHILE the report's changes are admirable, they fail to address the chief reason for the K-School's violation of Harvard's ethical guidelines. The report is remarkable for its failure to place the blame where it truly belongs--in the lap of K-School Dean Graham T. Allison '62. Cavanagh sticks to the line that Allison approved the proposed swap late one Friday night without giving it "proper scrutiny." Absent from the report are the crucial facts which rip apart this shallow excuse...
...easily blame the Republicans, who have a tendency to be more conservative on immigration policies. But xenophobia is in every stripe of politician. Democrat Dick Gephardt is making a bid for the presidency by engaging in Asia-bashing. A ranting protectionist is not likely to limit his hostility toward other countries to matters of trade. But maybe some of us don't think it is such a bad idea to keep the outsiders outside...
Sensing this reluctance, Israeli officials have plucked at our skittishness like harpists. Foxy strategy. Who can blame them? But what has our caution presumed? That Israel would be offended. Sure enough, some Israelis now are much offended. Countries do not take kindly to criticism, from allies especially. They tend to mount unified defensive fronts, even when, as is the case here, millions of Israelis feel the same anguish and displeasure...