Word: forgiven
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bush Administration may be forgiven for reacting slowly to the phantasmagoria of 1989. No one saw the collapse of communism coming, and no one could be sure that it would continue, much less spread. The next stage, however, is more predictable: sooner or later what started in the Soviet Union will engulf Moscow's clones in the Third World. This time there will be no excuse for the U.S. to be caught flat-footed...
...rest of the world, though, could be forgiven for suspecting that concern for the welfare of Panamanians weighed lightly in America's thinking about the invasion. The lack of interest, for example, in the Panamanian civilian death count has been shocking. The New York Times and Washington Post ran hundreds ^ of articles on aspects of the invasion. You would have thought that even the fact of uncertainty and confusion about the numbers, which were known to be in the hundreds, would be worth an article or two. But the first article addressing itself primarily to civilian casualties appeared on page...