Word: confrontment
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...itself the new big dog in the yard and is fueling the civil war in Iraq. How long would it be before Iran moved in for the kill? If it were allowed to take over Iraq, Iran would be the most powerful nation in the region and would fearlessly confront the West. Iran is a big dog penned up in its yard. But if we withdraw troops from Iraq, Iran will become a monster that no yard can hold...
...that moment might finally be coming. Comedy, because it relies on creating and breaking tension, has been one of the main means for minorities to confront America and get away with it. And after 9/11, comedians like the guys in Axis of Evil were politically relevant--whether they liked it or not. For months after the attacks, comedian Dean Obeidallah performed in clubs in New York City as Dean Joseph, using his middle name at the suggestion of a friend and club manager...
...Though he acknowledges that it is impossible to know what would have happened, he makes quite a strong case for how Iraq and terror cells can be contained, and how it would benefit us to have at least tried. Shapiro offers a series of complicated and detailed strategies to confront global terror, including greater investment in human intelligence to methodically track and stop weapons proliferation, and to his credit, he avoids oversimplification and instead offers thorough analyses of individual situations. His criticisms lack the liberal slant you would expect in such a work. Shapiro lambastes both Democrats and Republicans: Democrats...
...downshifting from a growth rate of 3.5% to about 2%, but few had predicted a recession. Greenspan's warning was particularly chilling because the truth is, the health of the massive U.S. economy-not the performance of Chinese stocks-is the single most critical variable that global equity investors confront...
...failing of many of our well-intentioned leaders to think that they have the power to change such a natural order, as the British and French believed when they ventured to remap the Middle East after World War I, leaving behind a host of problems that confront us today. Harry Friedman Milton Keynes, England