Word: foolishnesses
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NATO governments invested a great deal of political capital persuading their peoples to allow the installation of the Pershings and Tomahawks on their soil. Now the Americans have turned about and decided to remove them. Not only do the European governments look foolish, but they have the additional fear of further American force withdrawals from NATO...
Critics also point out that the Administration has been foolish not only militarily, but diplomatically. Kuwait, a country the size of New Jersey, has used the spectre of increased Soviet influence in the Middle East to trick us into guarding their supertankers. In fact, the country we most hate in the region stands to gain the most from our decision to defend open navigation of the sea; Iran sends most of its exports out of the Gulf by sea, while Iraq transports its oil through overland pipelines. By keeping the waters open, we inadvertently prevent Iraqi attacks on Iranian ships...
...grateful for the opportunity to hear North explain his side of the story. How foolish he makes a lot of people look for judging him before listening...
...crowds and displaying his fluency in Spanish and Greek. Now, after midnight, Dukakis stood with his exhausted 18- year-old daughter Kara on the airport tarmac in Dallas. For the first time all day, the candidate noticed that Kara was teetering on high heels. "Why do you wear those foolish shoes?" he asked, baffled that his child would choose fashion over function. "Why don't you wear running shoes or something sensible like that...
...work 24 hours at a time, and it seemed to affect his judgment. "When Ollie didn't sleep at night, he'd come up with even crazier ideas," says a colleague. "During the TWA hijacking in 1985, he called me in the middle of the night with some absolutely foolish idea. I told him, 'What you suggested is the most ridiculous idea I ever heard. Go home and get some sleep...