Word: misreadings
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...Baker. Critics claim that like Bush, Baker is drawn too heavily toward stability. Baker backed the President's impulse to go on supporting Gorbachev even when the ex-Soviet leader's weaknesses were becoming clear. Likewise, the Secretary's attachment to the familiar map of Europe caused him to misread the depth of nationalist feeling among the ethnic enclaves of Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union...
...felt another thing where he was just as wrong: the Nasser parallel -- he doesn't have to win to win. He can be seen as standing up against this onslaught, the West, the Yankees, and be seen as a victor ((even)) if he sues for peace." Saddam, thinks Bush, misread American newspaper editorials and arguments on television. "He was still living back in the Vietnam days. He didn't know we had a different ball game on here, different levels of technology, a different military force, a different President...
...defense the Crimson consistently missed tackles and misread plays allowing Chris Kouri to register his seventh 100-yard game of the year...
...question to be asked is, Do we ever remember the lessons? The strong emotions of pity and sorrow brought on by horror can have a tonic effect, thus the Aristotelian theory of tragic catharsis. But very often, we inure ourselves to the terrible. For one, we can choose to misread the implication. In Milwaukee, for example, public reaction has included the harassment of local gays, the very community victimized by Dahmer. A Wisconsin gay activist reports receiving a phone message saying, "You got what you deserved. You're going to get more...
...given the mixed signals the U.S. was sending Saddam, no wonder he misread Washington's intentions. On July 25, a week before the invasion, Glaspie was summoned to a hasty meeting with Saddam even as his troops threatened the border with Kuwait. She told him, "We don't have much to say about Arab-Arab differences, like your border difference with Kuwait." After the invasion Glaspie was severely criticized for her remarks, which were seen by many foreign policy analysts as having given Saddam a virtual green light for invasion. The criticism was misplaced. "She was an ambassador operating...