Word: destructionism
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It would be folly to assume, as some conservatives do, that the media is a one-headed conglomerate out to get Bush and his administration. Rather, it is best to consider the news media as the inheritor of H.L. Mencken’s tradition of journalistic pessimism. That is, in...
This angle in reporting foreign affairs has caused much distortion. Consider the former Yugoslavia. Instead of focusing on the rather boring Serbian retreat from its outposts in Kosovo, CNN and BBC regaled in airing errant U.S. bombs blowing trains off their tracks and careening into downtown Belgrade. And only after...
He said President Bush was right to declare war on Iraq because the country fostered a program of mass destruction and had ties to terrorist regimes.
“Particularly in the modern world, warfare is outdated because every part of the world is part of yourself,” he said. “So destruction of your enemy is destruction of yourself. Complete destruction of enemy and victory for yourself is impossible.?...
As much as the new spirit of cooperation suggests some measure of acceptance of a shared burden in Iraq - or perhaps, more correctly, a sense of shared consequences if Iraq remains unstable - the debate over political control in Baghdad is a reminder that neither side is willing to give ground...