Word: dissenter
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...Gaddafi, the second son of Libya's leader. Seif says he spent most of last year coaxing his father into transforming his 35-year-old revolution, which Gaddafi has led since he waged a military coup in 1969. The aging revolutionary has ruled over a centralized socialist system, repressing dissent and supporting armed attacks against American targets. Seif, 32, is believed by many analysts and diplomats to be Gaddafi's probable political heir. He is a doctoral student at the London School of Economics, a skilled artist and a keen tennis player who frequents the courts of Tripoli's Regatta...
Undergraduate Council President Matthew W. Mahan ’06, who serves as a student representative on the committee, says that although Summers does a good job of framing the conversations, he worries that “some members of the committee are less prone to voice dissent when he’s in the room...
...puppets. Iraqis rebelled with attacks that stunned the occupiers in their ferocity. Ultimately, the occupiers had to use brute military power to crush the insurgency, hoping that stories of men, women and children being killed indiscriminately wouldn't cause the public back home to lose its nerve. Quelling the dissent proved deadly for 2,200 British troops and some 10,000 Iraqis, and the country never did settle down by the time the British left in the 1940s...
...wrong place at the wrong time," calling it the wrong message to send to our adversaries and our troops. Kerry's characterization sends precisely the right message at the right time. To our adversaries, it demonstrates one of the greatest strengths of a functional democracy: the freedom to dissent and to criticize one's government without fear of having one's head severed. To our troops, it offers reassurance that Kerry fully recognizes what they are painfully aware of: the Iraq battle has gone awry and a change of strategy, tactics and leadership is called for. Thad L.D. Regulinski Tucson...
...wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time," calling it the wrong message to send to our adversaries and our troops. Kerry's characterization sends precisely the right message. To our adversaries, it demonstrates one of the greatest strengths of a functional democracy: the freedom to dissent and to criticize one's government without fear. To our troops, it offers reassurance that Kerry fully recognizes what they are painfully aware of: the Iraq battle has gone awry, and a change of strategy, tactics and leadership is called...