Word: sanely
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...sane human reasonably condone the furthering of any war after seeing that photograph...
First comes the lunatic (Stuart Whitman) who insists he is sane, yet cannot recall much about the night his wife was found with her throat slit. Joanne finds Whitman's story irresistible somehow, perhaps because her own marriage has been-well, difficult. She no sooner gives herself to her captor than fresh revelations come splashing to the surface...
...intervene two or three times in the small republics and succeed. But the real stake is the allegiance of the giants of Latin America--Brazil, Venezuela, Argentina, and Chile. Intervention is simply not worth the animosity that accrues to the U.S. in the great republics, where no sane President would dare try the same thing...
...because of the emphasis on protest rather than policy, the marchers lacked the clear thinking and directed proposals of Goldmark's Project Washington. In 1962, although Tocsin had a very fragile coalition of allies (the Student Peace Union, Student SANE, the American Friends Service Committee, and SDS), it managed to produce a sharply focused set of policy proposals...
Morality has an important place in politics. It is not, however, easy to say what that place is. Johnson, too, wants the war to end, incredible as that may sound to many Cantabrigians. Nor is he any less sane or more sane than those who want the U.S. to get out. But Johnson, like De Gaulle, like Churchill, like Machiavelli, proceeds on different assumptions about what peace and morality require. Hopefully the marchers, when they reach the White House, in that spirit of togetherness and certainty that every march inspires, will not be too contemptuous of the man inside...