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Brian S. Gillis ’07, however, had the opposite reaction...
...Alternative Senior Gift campaign began last week partly as a reaction to the official Senior Gift campaign, a student-led effort to collect money from Harvard’s graduating seniors...
...course, be said that such a film as that which Laurence Stallings has produced, like "What Price Glory" like post-war "horror" fiction, is only an intensified reaction. There has been a certain sophistication and a certain weariness in the reaction of the 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...
...understanding your enemy can lead to defeat. We will have little success in overcoming terrorists unless we better comprehend their motives. The Afghanistan war was a proper reaction to 9/11, but the Iraq invasion must have pleased Osama bin Laden, as it brought greater numbers to his side. The U.S. is not safer as a result of the Iraq war; we are in greater danger. Bin Laden's active followers may be a small minority of Arabs and Muslims, but a small minority of 1 billion people can still be a huge number. Our free and open society...
George W. Bush's reaction against Clintonism wasn't just reflexive and political; it was also philosophical. He filled his Administration with strategic thinkers, mostly neoconservatives, who had big ideas about how the world should work. The most important concept was the moral sanctity of American power. The post--cold war world was unipolar; multilateral institutions like the United Nations were feckless constraints on American action. Diplomatic protocols like the Kyoto accord and the Middle East peace process were outdated as well (the protection of Israel was another basic neoconservative assumption). The response to Islamic radicalism would be strategic...