Word: oblivions
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Bowing to political pressure, a city commander prepares to downsize his troops and head back into the frontlines. Elsewhere, peacekeepers on an exploration mission drift serenely moments before discovering a secret that sends them screaming into oblivion. And with that, British author James Roberts kick-starts _Eugenesis_, a science-fiction adventure that roars from start to finish with considerable verve. At first glance, there is nothing at all unusual about this novel. The old standards are there: the embattled heroes, shifting alliances, explosive secrets, and a mysterious and nigh-invincible enemy. The book design cleverly apes the Penguin Classics standard...
...That's why Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair has good reason for his confidence that President Bush would ultimately win Security Council approval of a resolution authorizing the use of force to disarm Iraq. The alternative, for the Security Council naysayers, is to be dispatched into geopolitical oblivion by Pax Americana. And they, too, have interests to protect in any regime-change in Iraq. Even if they continue to disagree with Washington on the wisdom and prudence of going to war in Iraq, a UN resolution authorizing force on the basis of Saddam's refusal to meet his disarmament...
...Road of Death" is the name Iraqis give to the highway that runs from the border with Kuwait to the city of Basra. Scores of Iraqi tanks and soldiers were blasted in to oblivion here during the Gulf War, and now Iraqis are wondering whether American troops will soon pass be passing through. Although the road has been mended, the debris of the last war have yet to be fully cleared. Deep in the desert stand vehicle graveyards, where tanks, trucks and artillery pieces mangled by Allied bombing a decade ago lie heaped in the sand...
...difficult to hear these words coming from a man like Finneran and take them for anything more than the empty platitudes we all crank out around New Year’s, only to consign them to eternal oblivion a few weeks later. There is little doubt that Finneran will “listen” to what his few vocal opponents say—but it’s what he’ll do afterwards that counts...
Adopting the Staff’s dismal view, Bush and his evil Republican cohorts will always be the scapegoats for every social ill plaguing our economy. We should all be skeptical of dogma that calls for taxing Americans into oblivion and destroying every last shred of personal responsibility for one’s own welfare...