Word: dissenters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...American Orthodox Church--a step away from Constantinople's authority that some still find attractive. "The mother raises the daughter, but eventually the daughter leaves home," says Popps. Bartholomew may have hoped his prickly prelate would forestall such talk. But in the end Spyridon may only have spurred dissent--and thus had to go himself...
...when Miller dug through his New Jersey office last week for transcripts of his recorded conversations, he found what could be called a voice of dissent. It was Cary's voice, carping about having to share his bedroom upon Steven's return in 1980, and wondering why Steven got such a hero's welcome for leading a younger boy named Timmy White to freedom from the same skeevy abductor...
...here's to America, from sea to shining sea. The full-throated roar of the people exercising their right to free speech is a little deafening at times; democracy does require a considerable tolerance for diversity and some fondness for dissent. But if we liked everything in perfect order, we'd be Germans. Personally, I think the Founders were right all along, but that the results are a lot funnier than they intended. I move a vote of gratitude that we live in a nation where so much confusion is allowed. God bless Americans...
...quagmire are partly self-fulfilling. The constant carpers and gloomy doomsters of the commentariat and Capitol Hill encouraged Milosevic to think America would fold first. Thus they prolonged the war and added to the human cost they claimed to deplore. Of course, this complaint could be used to discredit dissent in any war, and often has been. Aiding and comforting the enemy was a frequent charge against the antiwar movement during Vietnam. Today, when almost nobody denies that Vietnam really was a quagmire, the only argument left against those who called it a quagmire at the time is that they...
When to go to war is the most important question a democracy faces. You cannot disqualify all dissent on the grounds that it helps the enemy. And Vietnam put an end to the notion that dissent should stop once the decision to fight has been made. If not for protests while that war was going on, it might still be going on. But there's a distinction between making a moral or strategic argument against the use of military force and relentlessly predicting military disaster. There's also a distinction between heartfelt opposition to a use of military force...