Word: kneejerk
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...soon will he send low-level envoys to countries such as Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, to see if a presidential-level talk would be productive? "Obviously how we approach and deal with a country like Iran is not something that we should, you know, simply do in a kneejerk fashion...
...some apologists for “Gay or Asian?” may stand by the second rebuttal, which attempts to draw its authority from the First Amendment. The sight of protestation before an organ of the press can easily set in motion kneejerk polemics about freedom of speech. But such a debate, while academically interesting, would only mask the most important issue: the phenomenon of systemic, unacknowledged racism surrounding Asian Americans. For our part, we neither seek amends from Details nor wish in any way to see their right of expression curbed. We aim instead to draw attention...
...listen to abhorrent ideas, our own are valueless. They become totems that we carry around simply because everyone does. To quote a popular cliche, the essence of intellectual progress is the clash of ideas: when there is only one "correct" idea, everything stagnates in a bath of tepid, kneejerk liberalism...
...Powers Act was a kneejerk response by Congress to the unilateral decisions of Presidents Johnson and Nixon to involve the U.S. military in Vietnam. The Congress was only involved to a limited extent--passing the Gulf of Tonkin resolution which helped legitimize Johnson's and Nixon's actions as constitutional. For the most part, though, the legislature had no effect on presidential initiatives...
With the typical kneejerk reaction characteristic of American defence policy, the past and present Administrations have supported the 10 warhead 70 It, leviathan MX because the Soviets have weapons even larger. Instead of thinking beyond the Soviets clumsy and weak nuclear doctrine, our leaders copied it and at huge expense. Bigger is not better and more destructive weapons no longer alter the "balance of terror"; they only make the "rubble bounce...