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...think it is extremely important for both men and women to address this reality, because otherwise objectification of women will continue to be equated with sex; men will continue to feel pressure to conquer, and women will continue to be raped. M. Bridget Neale...
...stupid, you're stupid" argument, writing that the true totalitarians on campus are not the PC adherents but rather anti-PC fighters. This argument, of course, really doesn't disprove the original point; it only indicates that the respondent subscribes to the "classify and conquer" motif, where one side-steps the contention by dismissing the one who made...
...stand, at least for the next phase of the game. When this battle was joined on Jan. 16, Saddam had two major assets: the ability to conquer other countries and, in his occupation of Kuwait, proof of his willingness to do so. He has already lost much of the first, and he may abandon all of the second. If so, the coalition can deprive him of a third asset, his political appeal as a martyr, by ending hostilities...
There is nothing new in the phenomenon of a single audacious individual grabbing humanity by the throat. But Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, Genghis Khan and Napoleon all started near the center of the world they set out to conquer. Not too long ago, Saddam would have been a peripheral nuisance -- a pirate or a warlord meriting the dispatch of an expeditionary force from some imperial metropole...
...only or even main cause for war, whatever the cynics say. Would the U.S. have fought to conquer the Middle Eastern oil fields if Saddam Hussein had peacefully persuaded Kuwait, Saudi Arabia et al. to restrict production enough to shoot the price up to $40 per bbl.? Get real. The central issue is aggression, and how -- make that whether -- it can be contained in the post-cold war world. And forget all the moaning about shedding blood to keep feudal autocracies in control of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. One might well wish for more appealing victims and potential victims...