Word: moralizers
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...they are united in devotion to one another and the soldiers they will lead. They hear the reports coming from the war zones--the tales of terror and torture and the grind of nation building--and conclude that the world needs West Point's brand of physical and moral toughness more than ever. "People may come here for the wrong reasons," Pae says, "but they stay for the right ones...
...terrorist? Amerine asks. Someone who flies planes into buildings, says a cadet. The Japanese did basically that, says Amerine. Someone who kills civilians, says another. The U.S. did that in Dresden, Amerine replies. He is the tireless devil's advocate, forcing cadets into deeper analysis and dense moral ground...
...civilian languor mode, an artifact perhaps from their previous lives in sunny western states. The intensity level at West Point remains high, though, in part because of a new crop of instructors, tested by recent combat in Iraq and Afghanistan, who have come back to teach cadets about the moral ambiguities and psychological rigors of counterinsurgency and nation building. Captain Chris McKinney led a company of a hundred men through the bloody strike on Karbala before teaching infantry tactics, and the importance of constant, fierce adherence to Army standards, to West Point cadets. Major Jason Amerine, a Special Forces officer...
...investment bankers”—anecdotally describing trends they don’t particularly comprehend, rather than acting based on a methodical and measurable understanding of the electorate in an information age. Of course the party shouldn’t substitute a poll for a moral compass—but it is malpractice to make ignorant and outmoded decisions. I am sick of all the campaign innovations—from advertising on gym cable feeds to sponsoring drive-time traffic reports to energizing new voters on the Internet—coming from Republicans. I am sick of Democrats...
...family is not a democracy and that it is not her job to be our friend. She is our mother - consistent, a little old-fashioned - but she instructs us and gives us shelter on the road to heaven. Catherine Baron Morrisville, North Carolina, U.S. The U.S. has become a moral waste-land in no small measure because we Catholics have done a bad job of forming our conscience and then living in accordance with it. Abortion, embryonic-stem-cell research, pornography and morally offensive "alternative" lifestyles would not have become so entrenched if we had given a hoot about living...