Word: opinionizing
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Undoubtedly, the universality of these methods can be doubted. Yet it seems to be the consensus of opinion among recent political writers that the political current runs along quietly and corruptly in the shade. Usually corruption is not over-done. Professional politicians are not always exorbitant in their demands. They lack only support and power from the machine they operate and the government they support. Men with sufficient comprehension of the social purposes of party organization to try to keep its amateur standing, are conspicuous chiefly by their civic absence...
...last eight years, however, which must help to keep the idealism of pacifists from too lofty soaring. Every human being is by definition a pacifist. But it is only in the realization by human beings, a realization that is quickened and crystallized by such social influences on public opinion as "The Big Parade", that they are pacifists, that the impossible will ever be produced...
...often gives a successful murderer all the attributes of a Nietzschean superman. And the American university would often be just as logical in giving an honorary degree to the wizard with a sawed-off shotgun as it is in bestowing its academic laurels on a merchant prince. That public opinion is a shallow wench whose favors are as easily won with gold as with merit is a platitude which American universities have too often failed to appreciate...
...tentative truce in Fallujah brokered by local Sunni leaders appeared to be unraveling, Thursday, as insurgents failed to meet the U.S. demand that they surrender their heavy weapons. But a renewed outbreak of fighting there would likely further polarize Iraqi public opinion against the Coalition. In the Shiite holy city of Najaf, meanwhile, the wanted rebel cleric Moqtada Sadr appeared to be mimicking the Fallujah insurgents' taunting of the U.S. military, breaking off negotiations in the expectation that the Coalition would pay a heavy political price for going into the city with guns blazing...
...senator John Warner pointed out a "basic conflict of interests" between granting sovereignty to a government, on the one hand, and giving a foreign military power absolute freedom of action within its borders. "We've seen recently in the Fallujah operations where there's been some honest differences of opinion between members of the Iraqi Governing Council, the current governing body, and our military commanders as to the timing, the quantum and otherwise the use of force," said Warner...