Word: infliction
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Kerry’s opposition to the war in Vietnam was not based on the premise that our actions in Vietnam were evil or malicious. His primary mode of criticism was not that the government was trying to inflict misery on the Vietnamese population, nor was it that we had alienated ourselves from world opinion. Rather, as a courageous veteran of the war (he was awarded three purple hearts, a Bronze Star and a Silver Star) he criticized the Vietnam War because of the devastating effects it had on our men in uniform—the 58,000 deaths...
What’s been the response from business education? Most business schools are scrambling to lay on more ethics and leadership courses, but like ancient emperors oblivious to the pain they inflict, this amounts to little more than playing the fiddle while Rome burns. After all, my peers and I have spent the last quarter century educating a generation of managers to lead organizations that are mistrusted and resented by the majority of people who depend upon them. Where is our sense of urgency and accountability? We should be rethinking every assumption behind our purpose, message and methods...
...into this category? Some doctors believe that prospective transsexuals really are born into the wrong body; the surgery is therefore corrective. Others argue with equal force that gender dysphoria, as it is known, is a psychiatric affliction and that mutilating the body to fit the afflicted psyche is to inflict a double injury on the patient. The area is gray enough, and the controversy serious enough, to leave the matter, as we have, to the conscience of the individual physician...
...then there is the damage the candidates inflict upon themselves by fawning over the interest group sponsoring the event. The smartest thing I ever heard anyone say at one of these travesties was William Bennett's instruction to the audience at the Christian Coalition cattle show in 1995. Bennett told the faithful that "if these candidates don't tell you something that makes you feel uncomfortable or forces you to think, if they demand nothing from you, then you should give them nothing...
...decision by Iraqi forces to decline both of the two options coalition war planners are offering them: surrender or obliteration. Instead, those Iraqis still fighting have, according to an American officer, "turned matador," changing into civilian clothes, sidestepping the full might of advancing forces only to reappear later to inflict cut after cut in the Americans' flanks with guerrilla strikes on convoys or suicide bomb attacks. In this atmosphere every civilian is suspect, and the longer the conflict lasts and the more innocents that are sacrificed, the less welcome the Americans may be. The recent suicide bombing, in which four...