Word: pro-war
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Kerry continued to straddle pro-war and anti-war camps, saying Bush failed to exhaust his diplomacy options before declaring war but also insisting that countries like Iraq, Iran and North Korea must be aggressively contained...
...amuse-bouche to the spiced Moroccan lamb with couscous--pronounced, as the Martha Stewart-style hostess is careful to note, "coush-coush." The dinner guests are an array of gabby intellectuals loosely modeled on real-life intellectuals--a Christopher Hitchens-type British lefty, a Tom Clancy-like novelist with pro-war views, a Middle East expert who recalls the late Edward Said. They sit around a long oval table, with a chandelier listing overhead and helicopters whirring periodically, ominously, offstage. After heated debates on everything from Palestinian violence to vegan diets, there's a surprise guest and an apocalyptic climax...
This point, though, is perhaps obvious to a fault. For in the days following the slew of incidents being reported, what began on campus as collective outrage quickly outran itself and sputtered into accusations of overworked hysteria and witch hunts targeting pro-war students. Somewhere, the issue most urgent and in plainest view—the breakdown of intellectual discourse at a university—got lost in the shuffle...
That the goal of salvaging legitimate debate had been left by the wayside became even clearer last week when a student came forward and said he was now under investigation by the Yale police solely because of his pro-war views. Sometime between the first reported crime and the campus’ outpouring of indignation, free speech managed to take another...
Nearby, another group of students stages what appears to be a pro-war rally, though their mock chants are dubious to the careful listener...