Word: harmfulness
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...with his call to wake up or risk irrelevancy. And last week he unveiled his new national-security strategy, a long-range plan for the U.S. overseas, which argues that the strongest nation in the world has the right to pre-emptively attack anyone who seeks to harm its people or interests...
Dozens of Harvard students and professors have signed an online petition opposing a military attack against Iraq, and two Harvard faculty members were among 36 political scientists who argued that an attack would harm U.S. interests in an advertisement in the op-ed section of yesterday’s New York Times...
...count: Article 51 of the UN Charter affirms the right of Israel—or any state—to retaliate against an armed attack. But just because Israel has that right, it does not follow that it must use it, especially when doing so would do itself more harm than good...
...only encourage Iraq to attack. But if that is not sufficient to deter Saddam Hussein from attacking, then the U.S. should support Israel’s right to a retaliatory strike if necessary. Again, as in 1991, the Bush administration’s main concern is that retaliation would harm the coalition for war against Iraq. It would not only inflame Arab-Israeli tensions, but it also could prevent the U.S. military from gaining the cooperation it needs from Arab states in order to base American forces there...
Wasim Quadir ’03, president of the Harvard Islamic Society, wrote in ane-mail last night that while anti-Semitism is “reprehensible,” the website does harm...