Word: neos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prevent or stop massacres, the U.S. might be forced into an indefinite occupation and installation of a kind of puppet government in Baghdad (shades of Vietnam!). Absent some gross new provocation from Saddam, much of the Arab world would regard this as a neo-colonial occupation; the outbreaks of anti- Western fury that were predicted but failed to occur during the gulf war might really happen this time. At minimum, the U.S. would lose the leverage that has enabled it to get Arab-Israeli peace talks started...
...Clinton surge following his victory in the Dec. 15 Florida straw poll. Clinton has also encouraged hostile questions simply to strut his dexterity. At a November meeting of Democratic state leaders, the Washington state chairwoman, after speaking with a Clinton adviser, asked if the candidate was a neo-Republican. The unsurprised Clinton drew strong applause by evoking his grandfather's near religious devotion to Franklin Roosevelt...
...BELIEVE, as many neo-liberals (and General Schwarzkopf) do, that the war in the Gulf was unfortunate, but that once we were in, we should have made sure we fought it to its end, is backwards. The problem in the Gulf was not that faced with the "highway of death," with the visible artifact of what we destroyed, we failed to finish...
...once a member of the Ku Klux Klan or the neo-Nazis...
...Such happy assimilation: the $9 million structure, which fits into and improves a campus blessed with distinguished buildings, is among Stern's best work. It is Richardsonian (the arches, the churchlike massing) but not slavishly old-fashioned, and the jaunty bits (the eyebrow dormers and the tower) mitigate any neo-Victorian lugubriousness...