Word: moralize
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This piece betrays a moral apathy and intellectual laziness that has characterized much editorial coverage of civil conflict in this decade. As a piece of journalism, it has little worth: it neither explains the situation to people, nor does it take a well-reasoned moral stand, either for or against the bombing. So what is the point of writing it? To say that the ordinary person isn't in a position to make a moral judgment and shouldn't bother trying? And that the war is entirely in the hands of ordinary people, beyond the influence of leaders...
...while we stand by refusing to make moral decisions, basking in our intellectual sophistication or confused helplessness, people...
...NATO countries, tepid at best, could turn if the evening news starts delivering pictures of dead and maimed innocents. A TIME/CNN poll last week indicated less than massive support in the U.S., with 44% of respondents approving the air strikes. Another 40% disapproved. Asked if the U.S. has a moral imperative to stop Serb actions in Kosovo, 50% said yes and 41% no. The targets were reviewed with great care at the White House, where Secretary of Defense William Cohen and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Hugh Shelton, sat down with President Clinton to go over the list...
...Boris Yeltsin, who went ballistic on the phone for 45 minutes--putting Clinton in a testy mood for most of the day. Yeltsin later lashed out at the U.S. and talked vaguely of radical measures he had considered and rejected--presumably sending arms and volunteers to Serbia. "On the moral level, we are above America," Yeltsin said. Moscow's desperation for influence and anger at the U.S. are partly the result of humiliation, reflecting Russia's plunge from superpower to pauper in just 10 years. Says former President and friend of the West Mikhail Gorbachev: "We are sliding toward...
...many years, so little to show for the struggle. Conservative godfather Paul Weyrich, who coined the term moral majority, doesn't think there is one anymore. Abortion is still legal; the NEA is still funded; the Great Adulterer is still in office; the Republican establishment still thinks social issues are too thorny to embrace; and too many evangelical leaders have been seduced by their power at the expense of their principles. Weyrich says the time has come for conservative Christians to admit that the culture war is lost and to try a new strategy...