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...Nixon's "hard line" on criminals is obviously an elementary oversight in cause-effect principles. More precisely and elegantly expressed (with thanks to J.J. Rousseau): "A fool, if he be obeyed, may punish crimes as well as another: but the true statesman is he who knows how to prevent them...
...that the more populous "frontline" states like Egypt will use every possible means-including subverting the conservative, oil-rich regimes-to see that a good share of the oil revenue is channeled into the struggle against Israel. "They would attempt," Hottinger speculates, "to evolve an oil policy designed to punish the friends of Israel and to benefit the friends of the Arabs, who in that case would almost certainly include most or all of the Communist world...
Whether the Arab states could effectively punish the Western powers by such means is widely disputed. But it is clear that the revolution in oil, while it could provide the Arab nations with an Aladdin's lamp of riches for development, can also increase the volatility of a historically unstable region. Its advent makes even more urgent the need for a break in the impasse...
...Surely you cannot punish people for refusing to participate in a war which was not even worth the cost," Kerry said...
...ghastly tale. In a recent appearance on the Dick Cavett Show with Senator Barry Goldwater, Herbert dropped yet another bomb. He declared he had in his possession a whole series of memos (some signed by Generals Westmoreland and Sidle and Army Secretary Froehlke) that vowed to discredit and punish him. Goldwater, a member of the Armed Services Committee, promised to investigate. And so the war goes...