Word: disdainful
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...that, as one puts it, "some of the headway made against Islamists is lost by American diplomacy that has alienated most of the Muslim world." It is not that the extremists love Saddam. "Frankly," says a French source, "they don't give a s___ about Iraq, and they openly disdain Saddam as corrupt. But anything that happens in Iraq will just be used as further justification for terrorism." But if American soldiers are welcomed as warmly in Baghdad as they were by the people of Kabul, the effect of a war on the recruitment of terrorists might be different...
...which is already pressed to fill its army as it is. Certainly not the United States, which is always wary of wars in faraway places with tenuous connections to American interests, particularly in tropical jungles. Surely, he isn’t suggesting Europe will do the job, given his disdain for their peacenik agenda. Who then? Perhaps Lee should volunteer to found the Harvard American Division for the Liberation of Colombia and get the opportuntiy to see the military situation first-hand. As it is, his military analysis...
...title of the album is apt, as CKY has made no secret of its disdain for the trendy pop confections on the airwaves. Yet they seem intent on affecting their revolution from within the system. Their videos have played on TRL, and much of their fame has come by way of association with the MTV show “Jackass.” The music on Infiltrate is far more radio-friendly than previous albums, which included lyrics like “I caught my daughter giving head to my brother.” The emotions are more coded...
Michael Duffy's "Marching Alone" [11 LIVES, THE PRESIDENT, Sept. 9] showed his apparent disdain for President Bush's "simple moral clarity." If the American media insist on trivializing the enormity of Sept. 11 by rinsing its reality away in a river of moral relativism, they will have themselves to blame if terrorists launch an attack even more deadly. MICHAEL O'DRISCOLL Blackrock, Ireland...
Cairnie, as it turns out, ran a poetry shop that was almost more an elitist club than a bookstore. He had a poorly concealed disdain for the riffraff who wandered in unwittingly just to buy a book. Conversation in the backroom on the couch was a privilege reserved for Harvard boys, wealthy patrons and the well-known poets in residence across the street. If you weren’t attractive, eloquent or at least well-educated, you weren’t welcome back...