Word: fortress
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Buchanan's solution is Fortress America: pull the U.S. out of NAFTA and GATT, impose a 20% tariff on Chinese goods, 10% on imports from Japan and some kind of levy on goods from Mexico. Combine that with his hard line on immigration, his culture war, his unyielding opposition to abortion and the sweet-and-sour delivery he perfected on Crossfire. Papa's got a brand-new populism...
...references. Discoveries of an astonishing variety of 1st century coins, for example, help explain the need for money changers, whom an angry Jesus drove away from Jerusalem's Great Temple. Still, there are many questions that archaeology cannot now answer. Did Pilate pass judgment on Jesus at the Antonia fortress near the Temple site, or at Herod's palace across town? (If the latter, then the famed Via Dolorosa--the route that Jesus followed carrying his cross to Golgotha--is incorrect.) Is the tomb of Jesus beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, as tradition holds, or some place unknown...
Yitzhak Rabin was murdered precisely because he violated the far right's most cherished assumption of Jewish separatism, dared to tempt the Jewish people with a life outside the fortress. Beginning with his 1992 Inaugural speech, he demanded that Israelis stop regarding themselves as a permanently ghettoized people and repudiate the biblical prophecy--or curse--that decreed that the Jews as a "people shall dwell alone and shall not be reckoned among the nations." By their presence, the dozens of foreign leaders who came as mourners to Rabin's funeral disproved that prophecy...
...jumped to the ground, looked around and felt as if I had been propelled backward in time. Shimmering in the heat of the sun was an earth-and-wood fortress ringed by pillboxes. But for the greenness, A Shau had a French Foreign Legion quality, Beau Geste without the sand. I stood there asking myself the question I am sure Roman legionnaires must have asked in Gaul-What the hell am I doing here...
...South Vietnamese soldiers confronting them did not just flee; they threw away everything that could identify them as soldiers and tried to melt into the general population. Bui Tin, an NVA colonel and journalist, says he spent that last morning "with one of our units taking a fortress that had been held by a South Vietnamese division. All the South Vietnamese soldiers who had fled had abandoned their uniforms. Everywhere you looked on the road, they had left all their military clothing and supplies: canteens, caps, coats, pants, boots, belts--they must have ended up fleeing in their shorts!" Some...