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Some of the conservative officers in Moscow are trying to pretend the Iraqi collapse never happened. Marshal Viktor Kulikov told a Soviet news agency that Iraqi soldiers had failed, not Soviet equipment. Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, an adviser to President Mikhail Gorbachev, said any claim that the gulf war proved the superiority of American arms was "sheer propaganda...
...course it would be foolish to pretend that "no" has always meant "no" in the bedroom. As Morgan points out, "the language of courtship is not clear." It is precisely because of this ambiguity that acquaintance rape is so prevalent. And because the "language of courtship" has not been clear, it must be made clear now. Because women do not want to be raped, and men do not want to be rapists, we must all work together to eradicate rape...
...during his successful campaign to become the nation's first post-Reconstruction Black governor. And that is why we disagree with the staff's failure to make a distinction between the Confederate flag and the swastika. While we dislike the Confederate flag and disapprove of its display, we cannot pretend that the two symbols can or should be equated...
Social Analysis is very similar to Moral Reasoning, in that it teaches you to talk as if you know everything without actually knowing anything. Social Analyis has the added benefit of being unconstrained by morality. In Moral Reasoning, you have to pretend to be ethical, but that facade withers away within the first five minutes of any Social Analysis course worth its salt...
ASSUME for a moment that, instead of Kuwait, Switzerland was invaded. What if a million-strong, battle-hardened army swarmed accross its borders? Pretend that Swiss, rather than Kuwaiti, women are being raped in the streets of Geneva rather than Kuwait City...