Word: deserting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...throughout the film. Thomas and Hackman seem to be struggling to escape from the rather meaningless lines that have been provided for them. When Andrew calls his father in the desert after an argument, he says desperately, "don't worry. Dad, I'll pay for the call. You can take it out of my allowance." Thomas pulls off this unfathomable statement with a desperate, sometimes shrill voice, making the audience wish that the actors could have had a better script to develop their characters...
...American people." Then I told him that while I could not desert him in the middle of a crisis, under the present arrangements I could not continue as his Secretary of State nor could his policies survive for four years. If the President could not make the necessary changes to restore unity and coherence to his foreign policy, then it would be in the country's interests to have another Secretary. I suggested that the best time for my departure would be after the mid-term elections in November, to minimize the political impact...
...Nevadan, you're guilty until proved innocent." Federal investigators adamantly defend their actions. Nevada, says retired FBI Agent Joseph Yablonsky, u who headed the Claiborne probe, has too long operated like "a foreign protectorate ... We've had to plant the American flag in the desert...
...like living on the banks of a great river: the soil is wonderfully fertile and there are many other benefits, but every four years or eight years, the river, flooded by storms that are too far away to be seen, changes its course, and you are left in a desert, all alone. These irrational changes, of course, produced by a political vengefulness that is alien to American life, are a great danger. They confuse our friends, mislead our adversaries and confound our own plans for a more manageable world...
...simple reality of this bloody desert war of attrition is that neither side has any real justification for what it is doing, and victory for either would have terrible world consequences. A good case can be made that an Iranian victory would be the greater evil, but this gives no weight to any argument that our government should support Iraq. U.S. policy should seek to defuse the crisis as much as possible with the limited diplomatic tools available, but this must no include aid for either side...