Word: callous
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...influence we have." The move would also hurt the reputation of Western bankers. Adds a European banking authority: "A Western declaration of default would make the Soviets chuckle. The Russians would be able to discredit the West, particularly in the Third World, where such action would be regarded as callous capitalism...
...creedal passion periods? A conflict between "history and progress," Huntington explains, one that involves the difficulty of campaigning for the old ways, made more difficult by the inertia of modern institutions. But a more convincing explanation might be this: that many Americans, not out of patriotism but out of callous economic or political self-interest, have perverted the American Creed itself (and not, as Huntington argues, just the institutional reforms that emerge from it) to hold people in bondage. It is no accident, it seems to me, that words like rights and liberty play prominent parts in those Mobil...
Your excellent review of Franklin Roosevelt failed to mention one fact: his neglect, if not abandonment, of European Jewry during World War II. Roosevelt's callous refusal to take appropriate actions to end the Nazi killing machine is now too clearly documented to be dismissed in a period of reminiscence. I cannot share in a celebration of his legacy...
...United States' moral outrage at this display of callous European self-interest overshadows the fact that even should the allies fall in line. America's steps would be either insignificant or counter-productive. A food embargo against Poland would no doubt cause hardship but would not end martial law the victims would be the Polish people, not their leaders. A similar embargo aimed at the Soviet Union would hurt American farmers at least as much as the Carter administration's futile ban on grain trade over Afghanistan--Reagan's paradoxical lifting of the ban proved that much...
That telling fact appears to justify Benjamin Disraeli's seemingly callous judgment that "assassination has never changed the history of the world." Yet even the unsuccessful killer wounds society's sense of reason and order...