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...cautious, he's just not reckless," comments Fisher...
...idea is reckless, taking in so many strangers, hurling all those contradictory genes and customs and temperaments into the same room. It goes against human nature. Strangers are not supposed to set up civilizations together. A nation must arise out of a tribe, out of affinities of blood. At one time, if some Pacific island tribesmen encountered a man they had not seen before, they simply killed -- and sometimes ate -- him. Tribal policy. But the U.S., with its great polyglot ingathering, went brilliantly to the other extreme...
...commander of destroyers early in World War II, says Ziegler, Mountbatten was popular but reckless: "If a destroyer could leave skid-marks, (H.M.S.) Kelly would have disfigured every sea in which she sailed." Even so, the author largely absolves Mountbatten of responsibility for the failure of the bloody 1942 raid on Dieppe, a sacrifice made inevitable by pushing and shoving between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. And Ziegler argues convincingly that Mountbatten's handling of the transfer of power in India in 1947 was a success, considering political realities there. He opposed the splitting off of Muslim Pakistan from...
William C. Westmoreland, the former commander of U.S. ground forces in Vietnam, accused Wallace and CBS of reckless and malicious reporting in a 1982 documentary. "The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception." The documentary charged that Westmoreland deliberately falsified enemy troop estimates to convince Washington that enemy forces were weaker than they actually were...
...same kind of stories on which he built his own reputation: high- impact investigative stories of wrongdoing," wrote MacKinnon. "Regardless of whether one chooses to characterize this policy as conducive to . . . 'sophisticated muckraking,' it certainly is relevant to the inquiry of whether a newspaper's employees acted in reckless disregard of whether a statement is false...