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Still unthinking, for those things which do not give us an instant buzz, our patronage turns to treachery. In these cases, if one child displeases us, we suggest massacring the entire family. If the present tenants of a house are distasteful, we knock the house down...
...peace treaty, is actually one of the less impressive recent U.S. successes. It is a welcome but hardly transforming step on the road toward peace in the Middle East, and the American role in bringing it about was only important, not decisive. But the occupation of Haiti -- cross fingers, knock on wood -- so far has been a nearly bloodless triumph. The swift deployment of U.S. troops and planes that scared Saddam Hussein into withdrawing the Iraqi forces he had massed along the border with Kuwait seems a "no-brainer" to many foreign- policy experts. Clinton had only to order execution...
Again, not to knock anyone, but a chant of "Let's Go Defense" just isn't very inspiring...
Flux. All these leagues (I didn't even have room to knock the NHL) are taking advantage of their fans, stupidly, childishly, selfishly, in the process leaving themselves in a state of flux from which they may never fully recover...
Here was a gaudy show of Clinton's channel-changing skills, his rescindable reality, his now-I-mean-it, now-I-don't. The last, final, no-kidding, planes- in-the-air, lock-and-load, ah'm-gonna-knock-yo'-haid- clean-off dudgeon metamorphosed -- surprise! -- into Jimmy Carter's dropping from the sky into Port-au-Prince. The voodoo of appeasement. Erstwhile murderer-torturer-rapists deserving nothing less than violent eviction (even if the invasion violates U.S. popular and congressional opinion and virtually every lesson learned in Vietnam) became, in the sunshine of Carter's smile and hunger...