Word: iwo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...look at one of the station's propaganda films shows why Yitzhak Rabin would be happy to see Lighthouse knocked out of commission. While martial music blares in the background, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Hizballah's leader, is seen embracing departing fighters. Documentary footage shows guerrillas planting their flag, Iwo Jima-style, as they storm an Israeli position. Israeli troops load casualties onto stretchers and into helicopters. "Thousands upon thousands are waiting for their martyrdom," says Nasrallah of his forces. Cross hairs are superimposed over footage of Israeli soldiers on patrol. Voices chant, "Resistance! Resistance! Resistance...
...idea that the men who stormed Iwo Jima and withstood the Kamikazes are creatures too tender to tolerate analysis of the war they fought is more than patronizing. It is intellectually dishonest. The vets would have welcomed analysis of the Pacific war that was minimally accurate, that gave due attention to Japanese depredations and American sacrifice, that was not corrupted by such revisionist nonsense as the suggestion that we might not have dropped the bomb on Nazi Germany because Germans are white. The issue is not that veterans cannot stand analysis but that the analysis offered by the Smithsonian...
...example, Iwo Ojima, professor of chemistry at the State University of New York at Stonybrook, is working on an analog to taxotere, a compound similar to taxol, known as Baccatin III. Taxotere, another drug with taxol's properties extracted from the leaves of the European and Indian yew trees, is more widely available than taxol and can be produced in greater quantities...
...took place far away and long ago, the political and psychic scars on the home front will not heal. By the end of the century, Americans will probably remember the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the U.S.S.R. as they now look back on Normandy and Iwo Jima -- climactic moments in triumphs for Our Side that have passed into history...
There's a reason why this always happens--it's your halftime talks. Kids these days don't respond as well to triumphant tales of Iwo Jima and stories of the Gipper. (In fact, by the time my generation got to know Ronald W. Reagan, he was in the early stages of Alzheimer...