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...naturalist fallacy in this argument is easy to discern. By the author's moral criteria, taking a dose of penicillin to cure strep throat is a profoundly immoral...
...majority of West Germans accepted the necessity of a heavy U.S. military presence as long as they could discern a clear Soviet military threat from the East. But with the reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, the end of Stalinism in the East bloc and the progress on arms control, Germans have lost that fear. Resentment, long repressed, burst into the open in 1988 when three Italian jets collided during an air show at the U.S. Ramstein air base, killing 70 spectators and pilots. Although the accident had little to do with U.S. military operations, it galvanized public protests against ubiquitous...
Anyone who takes in the atmosphere along the perforated Berlin Wall today, declared Moisi, should be able to discern -- by the body language of the Volkspolizei on the Eastern side and the Berlin police on the Western side -- an extraordinary and palpable tug of togetherness. "The citizens of the German Democratic Republic really have a feeling of humiliation about being second-class citizens ((compared with their Western counterparts)), and that feeling can be ameliorated only by reunification." Opposing that process, suggested Moisi, would ultimately cause more problems than it would solve...
...world where one man who clearly violates the tax law gets elected mayor of New York while another gets put out of business and sentenced to jail, it's worth a few moments to try to discern what's going...
...agreement to partition eastern Europe, including Poland, between them. A few weeks after signing the agreement, the Red Army rolled into a Poland already prostrate from the German blitzkrieg. The Soviets deported thousands of Poles--including 14,500 officers--to Russian labor camps. Their motives are not difficult to discern; they wished to short-circuit any future Polish leadership...