Word: moralizers
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...plan designed explicitly to sideline them, and U.S. and Israeli officials had begun to worry in the months preceding the plan's endorsement by the White House that its implementation, would, in effect, hand Gaza over to Hamas. The radical Islamist movement today commands far greater political support and moral authority on the streets of Gaza today than does Arafat's moribund Palestinian Authority. Withdrawal from Gaza would leave the green and white flags of Hamas fluttering from the rooftops of the vacated settlements as thousands of supporters fired Kalashnikovs in to the air to celebrate their "victory" over...
...Shaw’s heroes are men of moral passion.” (English...
...President's moral convictions are, no doubt, matters of true faith--and the Jordanian businessman is a member of an authoritarian establishment with much to lose if Islamic radicals or, faint chance, democrats take charge. But Bush's moral certainty almost seemed delusional last week in the vertiginous realities of Iraq. A distressing, uninflected righteousness has defined this Administration from the start, and it hasn't been limited to the President. Bush's overheated sense of good vs. evil has been reinforced by the intellectual fantasies of neoconservatives like I. Lewis Libby and Paul Wolfowitz, who serve Bush...
...minority rights. It certainly can't be imposed by outsiders, not in a fractious region where outsiders are considered infidels. This is not rocket science. It is conventional wisdom among democracy and human-rights activists--and yet the Administration allowed itself to be blinded by righteousness. Why? Because moral pomposity is almost always a camouflage for baser fears and desires. Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the neoconservatives share a primal belief in the use of military power to intimidate enemies. If the U.S. didn't strike back "big time," it would be perceived as weak. (Crushing the peripheral Taliban and staying...
...Ghraib made a mockery of American idealism. It made all the baser motives--oil, dad, Israel--more believable. And it represents all the moral complexities this President has chosen to ignore--all the perverse consequences of an occupation...