Word: opinioned
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They are beginning to sound like an organized criminal enterprise that happens to have some echoes of a revolution - like FARC in Colombia or Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers. Right. We often compare the war in Afghanistan to the war in Iraq, and in my opinion, it much more closely parallels the war in Colombia and the transformation of the FARC from a Maoist group into a criminal smuggling organization that came to control a Switzerland-size chunk of Colombia. [Many] of the Taliban commanders have lost their ideological roots and are really just in it to make a buck...
...think so. It wouldn't have happened without Giuliani. He had a commissioner [William Bratton] that changed the culture of the NYPD and made them accountable for the first time in perhaps a decade, but Giuliani was unable to share credit and Bratton was dismissed. Bratton, in my opinion, was not blameless either. He couldn't control himself when it came to publicity...
Cronkite was TV's patron saint of objectivity, in an era when audiences still believed in it (though he became a liberal columnist after retiring from TV). And yet ironically his most famous act as a news anchor was a rare occasion when he ventured an opinion. After reporting in Vietnam in 1968, Cronkite commented on the air that "it seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate." President Lyndon B. Johnson remarked that if he had lost Walter Cronkite, he had lost Middle America; soon after he announced that...
...Many Arabic news media covered the story only sporadically or failed to pick up on it until days after the riots began, and opinion writers - who were especially prolific in defense of the headscarf martyr - had very little to say about the Muslims in China. An article over the weekend in Saudi Arabia's Arab Times likened the struggle of their Uighur "co-religionists" to that of the Palestinians and compared the Han Chinese to the Jews; and an editorial in Egypt's state-run Al-Ahram newspaper last week urged the international community to pay more attention...
...venture an opinion about one outfit, I thought that what she wore the night Barack Obama won the nomination, that red-and-black dress, was awful. It was not my favorite dress ... I did not think it was the most flattering look on her for sure. I would like to say that we all get it wrong sometimes, and even [if you're] someone like Michelle Obama who has help and resources and a fantastic physique, you get it wrong sometimes. I think that endears her to women. We all get it wrong. It almost makes me feel better...