Word: logicality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thus the danger of the root cause idea. It is offered as an analytic tool to understand an unpleasant reality: revolutionary violence. But whether intended or not, the logic of the root cause argument suggests one of two attitudes toward the unpleasantness: 1) despair, because root causes cannot be changed, or 2) moral ambivalence, because legitimacy necessarily accrues to those who fight with root cause on their side. One must not find oneself "on the wrong side of history...
...honorable dream. And it is based on a clear logic: since much of the terrorism in the Middle East is committed either by Palestinians or by others acting in their name, why not solve the terrorism problem by solving their problem...
Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky, now a member of the seven-man Corporation, used to tell students that they were only here for four years, he was here for life and the University was here forever. We don't accept that twisted logic; all of us are concerned about the future of Harvard and more significantly, the advancement of learning...
Neither the Zakharov nor the Daniloff arrest seemed to make sense in terms of delicate summit planning, but in the arcane world of East-West spying the events had their own logic. Both sides say they acted because the other side broke unwritten rules of espionage. Zakharov was an irritant to U.S. counterintelligence agents because current spying etiquette decrees that operatives who are not accredited as diplomats can perform "spotting" and "assessment" functions for the spy masters but only those with diplomatic status can handle informants. "We couldn't let the KGB get away with this," said an intelligence official...
...attacks, the worst this year in the crumbling Lebanese capital, accounted for almost half the country's 123 car- bomb-related deaths since January. They underlined yet again the bloody logic of Beirut's seemingly senseless cycle of sectarian vendettas. No groups claimed responsibility for the bombings, but Christian leaders promptly blamed the East Beirut atrocity on Muslims, charging that they were acting for the regime of Syrian President Hafez Assad. Across town in his West Beirut headquarters, Nabih Berri, the chief of the predominantly Shi'ite Amal militia, ascribed the Barbir bombing to Christian militiamen bent on revenge. More...