Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wall Street Journal noted that it has a policy designed to prevent such cases: new employees are expected to sign a 3½ -page conflict-of-interest statement. Managing Editor Norman Pearlstine said the case left the paper with "a collective sense of shock, outrage and betrayal...
...mixture of history, passion, miscalculation, national pride and personal egotism that produced a "little" war that everyone knew was senseless and avoidable also contains the ingredients for a much larger conflict. Last and first, the Falklands war was caused by the original miscalculation on the part of the Argentinian military junta that a Western democracy was too soft, too decadent to defend itself. This delusion on the part of undemocratic governments has been, and remains, the greatest danger to peace in this century. The cacophonous self-criticism of the democracies and the unwavering insistence of their people that peace must...
...Syrian government but was still waiting to see Assad when the Israeli air force attacked the Syrian SAM sites in the Beka'a Valley, destroying them all and shooting down 23 Syrian MiGs while losing no Israeli aircraft. This sudden attack changed the whole character of the conflict...
...will all blow over in the morning." When I did go to bed, a long time afterward, my thoughts were deeply disturbed by the dangerous implications of a situation in which a presidential assistant, especially one of limited experience and limited understanding of the volatile nature of an international conflict, should assume...
...detected no willingness on the part of the hard-liners around the Cabinet table or in the NSC to risk international conflict or shed American blood over Poland, nor would any rational official have advocated such a policy. Rather, these men seemed to imagine that the U.S. could control Soviet behavior toward Poland, or even defeat her purposes, through the application of economic and trade sanctions that would "bring her to her knees...