Word: judgmentalism
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...choosing to go after Chalabi, the U.S. risks alienating some of its few remaining allies in Iraq while inviting fresh doubts about its judgment--all at a time when the U.S. is trying to line up support for the planned transfer of power on June 30 in a last-gasp bid to stave off spiraling discontent with the occupation. "This is always the way the United States does things," Chalabi tells TIME. "One of the first things they do when they come into a place is turn their backs on their friends who were instrumental in bringing them there." About...
...Opinion polls attest to a growing acceptance of gay marriage - one recent poll (commissioned by Elle) in France found 64% of those questioned favored it. But for the Roman Catholic Church, it amounts to an abomination. The Vatican laid out its position against the trend in a 12-page judgment last summer, thundering that "there are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous to God's plan for marriage and the family. Marriage is holy, while homosexual acts go against the natural moral law." Muslim authorities are as adamantly opposed...
...Senator from Massachusetts has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings to bear on vital issues of national security." VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY, in a speech at Westminster College in Missouri, criticizing Democratic candidate John Kerry...
...would duly enquire about the best form of a state ought first to determine which is the most eligible life". It is not intended that either of these inquiries shall be slighted. It is believed that their union will be fruitful, and that it will conduce to sound judgment on the concrete problems of contemporary civilization...
...have to clean it up, they say of the task ahead. They'll hate us no matter what we do, they say of the enemy. I wouldn't want to be in his shoes, they say of the President. Even as voters fault George W. Bush's judgment, many praise his instincts. "I don't think he has the faculties of his father," says Steve Guest, a computer engineer in Cincinnati, Ohio, "but he has the resolve, and that's what matters." A less admiring observer, Matt Streng, a health-care teacher in Chapel Hill, N.C., sees the public...