Word: eviler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same time, they estimate the prospects for a military victory are grim. Many liberal Democrats, moreover, have a strong aversion to military intervention anywhere, and so warn darkly about escalation, mumbling "Another Vietnam" periodically. This stance being inconsistent with funding such evil operations, Democrats have compromised by giving the President less money than he asks for and attaching strings like the Boland Amendment...
...suggestions are rooted in reality, and he is scrupulous about offering contingency plans. But throughout the book the reader is left with the feeling that the vision's cornerstone--that national consensus--will never come to pass. Without a mandate to clear the board and start afresh, that evil word in the world of economic policy, politics, will rear its nasty partisan head. With a theory that depends so much on cooperation and compromise, one side holding back could make the whole structure disintegrate. And while the Democrats can praise Reich's book and use some of his ideas...
Will the exposure of the phony Hitler diaries and other forgeries of Nazi mementos deter buyers? Hamilton thinks not. "Evil seems sexy," he observes. The world's estimated 50,000 collectors of Naziana, he says, find "the monstrosity and evil of Nazism to be strangely exciting...
...temporary acceptance of evil" does not mean that we must honor the architects of evil acts, particularly when they continue to defend the propriety of their actions. Whether or not the Japanese-Americans' relocation was motivated by war hysteria, and whether or not McCloy commuted the sentences of war criminals because of fear of communism, McCloy demonstrated far more concern for the entitlements of convicted war criminals than for the rights and lives of innocent Japanese-Americans and Jews...
...will ever satisfactorily explain the Holocaust, though debate on the subject will continue into the foreseeable future. Yet some characteristics of the Nazi era are already crystal clear. That the death camps existed and were the greatest evil yet known to man is beyond debate. The creeping attempts at revisionism on this matter will only serve to revive the crime against humanity that we thought had died with Hitler...