Word: discredit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Bush's bluster and bellicose rhetoric could indeed cause Saddam to blink--but don't bet on it. Saddam has staked his career and his life on this confrontation. Giving in to Bush's demands would likely mean discredit and deposition for a dictator of his stripe. If Saddam called our bluff, Bush would be left with two choices: to suffer the humiliation of backing down or, more likely, to go to war in the desert...
...Jews scarred by the memories of the Holocaust, Kahane's slogan "Never Again" was a powerful message. To his discredit, Kahane perverted the reasonable agenda of opposing anti-Semitic violence into a doctrine that justified militance and violence. In the late 1960s, Kahane's Jewish Defense League took up the cause of human rights for Soviet Jews, a noble crusade for a group which was largely ignored at the time. Unfortunately, the League turned to violent tactics such as attempted bombings to achieve its aims...
Which is precisely why conservatives cannot afford to discredit themselves and their ideas with insensitive and hateful behavior. Morally reprehensible, such antics are also self-defeating. How can the Review expect anyone to take seriously its principled skepticism of affirmative action when the paper mocks the "Brillo pad" hairstyle of a Black professor...
...point of the article was not to set the record straight about this particular incident; it was to discredit the Arab voice on campus and to propagate old stereotypes...
Horner also said that he is skeptical of the motives behind those protesting the incident. "The controversy is designed to have a negative effect and discredit the conservative point of view," he said. "The controversy is obviously political...