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...would be folly to speculate on what actually took place during the slaughter, but a few things are clear. The Israeli military authorized the Phalangists to enter the camps. And some people reacted very slowly to reports of the ongoing disaster. Most Israelis believe their troops had the implicit duty to assure the safety of all civilians, a duty the high command officially assumed when the Israeli Army entered West Beirut the day after President-elect Bashir Gemayel's assassination...
...many countries there simply is no practical alternative to their present stages" Perhaps Nixon is indeed right to suggest potential pragmatic and philosophical pitfalls which foreign policies face in trying to follow idealistic, human rights based programs. But in the process, indeed throughout the book, Nixon betrays the condescension implicit in the notion that some peoples are somehow "unprepared" for democracy or that well, yellow people are for some reason thicker-skinned than whites and can therefore bear injustice and suffering better...
This kind of pragmatic approach to Christianity does not surprise Rubem Alvez, one of Brazil's leading liberal Protestant thinkers. He argues that missionaries from the West, and especially from the U.S., bring with them an implicit promise: "Be converted to Protestantism, and you will become like the affluent nations of the world...
...Benjamin's implicit assessment of the situation in the Middle East...
Moreover, the election outcomes in North Carolina and other states around the country cast considerable doubt on the New Right's implicit claim that it can win races merely by tossing enough dollar bills around. "Jesse Helms has very little to show for his $9 million," raised for the elections, notes one Washington Democrat. Indeed, in state races everywhere, the New Right threw away its money in futile attempts to knock off legislators like Maryland's Paul Sarbanes, Massachusetts Ted Kennedy, and Michigan's Donald Riegle...