Word: blowingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House, after all the attacks, the prosecutor gets his own bunker mentality and starts to figure, O.K., this is a war." And by the time the White House began attacking Starr for zealotry and moonlighting and hiring aggressive deputies, Starr felt he had no option but to meet Clinton blow for blow...
...talk was tough. "If Saddam refuses to accept full access for U.N. inspectors," declared Madeleine Albright, "we are prepared to use military force... If diplomacy fails, we will deliver a serious blow...
Albright's response? A huff and a puff and not a mention of the promised "serious blow." Not a hint, not a memory. And now we learn that after talking tough, Albright had been secretly urging the U.N. arms inspectors to hold off on searches lest they provoke Saddam. Seeing the U.S. throw in the towel, Saddam has grown even bolder, announcing now the effective end of even long-term monitoring. With America prone, he can resume building his doomsday weapons unmolested...
...however, these scorned abstractions--credibility above all--matter. They are intangible, yes, but indispensable. Weakness breeds contempt. When you have no credibility, your enemies will seek you out anywhere in the world and blow you up. And what have you lost? Real blood, real lives...
...Some cost-cutting tips for next time: There's a very serviceable Camp Terrorism scene in Patriot Games (1992), and some great Sudan footage in Khartoum (1966). Heck, I'm sure Pfizer would have let us blow up its factory, if only to drive up the price of Viagra. With a little help from Industrial Light and Magic (pro bono for Hollywood Bill, I'm sure), it all would have looked fine...