Word: gung-ho
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...Iraq issue, earning support could simply be a matter of shaking the body politic out of its complacency. Thanks to the Bush and Blair governments, the world is closer than ever before to removing weapons of mass destruction from the hands of Iraq’s madman dictator. Gung-ho for war? More like gung-ho for international peace and safety...
...suffer from a surfeit of purpose either. In the duel against Saddam, the U.S. plays a Gulliver strong on words and weak on will. Will it really go after the Butcher of Baghdad? Maybe. Or not. It all depends on who is talking. The Pentagon seems to be gung-ho on war, the State Department much less so. The military does not like wars it is not guaranteed to win with zero casualties. So the brass does what it knows best: leaking its doubts all over Washington. And Congress has launched hearings on a campaign that...
...problem runs deeper than a few ill-chosen comments. Some of the most gung-ho hawks in Washington have made the argument that toppling Saddam would facilitate an entire remaking of the Middle Eastern political equation on terms more favorable to the U.S. and Israel. And that's precisely the fear on the streets and in the corridors of power of the Arab capitals. Not that Rumsfeld is particularly concerned. On Tuesday, he went on the record disputing the characterization of the West Bank and Gaza as "occupied" by Israel, declining to criticize Israeli settlement activity there and trashing...
Native Americans, we like to believe, live at one with the universe, serenely attuned to the ebb and flow of natural forces. The culture of the U.S. Marine Corps is quite the opposite--gung-ho machismo in full cry. Yet in World War II, the latter had a desperate need for the former, specifically for an unbreakable code, based on the Navajo language, which could be openly spoken on the radio in combat. Windtalkers is a (heavily) fictionalized account of this coupling...
...What are your suggestions to Harvard freshmen who already know they want to go into finance? How can such gung-ho students position themselves to eventually get these jobs...