Word: scares
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...scare off all the rest...
...shock," says Royce Lin '96, a Greenough resident. "It didn't really scare me, but it did make me angry...
There will be two more debates and plenty more name calling, attack advertising and scare stories. When it gets rough, as it will, it will be easy to forget that the nation is poised to change direction. The end of Reaganism seems at hand. George Bush, the vestigial Ronald Reagan who has called his presidency a "stewardship," is suffering the cancer of politics, the high negatives; his job-approval rating is lower than Jimmy Carter's in October...
From a man so suspicious of the Vietnamese, this explanation makes little sense. Taken out of the 1968 Red Scare context, little of Kissinger's ranting makes much sense. Last week he seemed to have been dropped whole from another planet, where Watergate never happened and Americans could still believe in Nixon's honesty...
...since Vietnam has started to recede into history, it's clear that we had real moral obligations toward both our own soldiers and to the citizens of Vietnam. Yet when we look around us today, we find nothing but Kissinger-style diversionary tactics which are meant to scare the American public into silence and blur our moral obligations. President Bush seems shocked that we want to know about his arms deals with Iraq, his possible complicity in the Iran-contra scandal, his rush for a land war against Saddam Hussein and any number of other issues which question his judgment...