Word: sentimentalism
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...really embarrassed over the fact that the committee could give it to the president after so short time. For a long time the Swedes have argued that they should take over the responsibility for the prize. Now they have really good arguments for that." Echoing that sentiment, Jan Arild Snoen, columnist for the conservative Norwegian website Minerva, said, "To award the peace prize to a sitting president during a war which he not only supports but actually wants to increase troops for, is very peculiar. I think there is a danger that it will make Norway look silly...
...Twitter so united in sarcasm as over the Nobel announcement." With that tweet - which at a mere 59 characters is terse even by Twitter's Procrustean standards - Alex Evans, a.k.a. @alexevansuk, a nonresident fellow at the Center on International Cooperation (CIC) at New York University, sums up the prevailing sentiment on the microblogging website...
...seems improbable that Mao would actually have expressed such a reactionary sentiment at such a heady time. His was a movement driven by the cause of the exploited worker and peasant. Yet the scene appears in The Founding of a Republic, a slickly produced (though ponderously paced) state-backed film to commemorate this year's 60th anniversary of the People's Republic of China. (See pictures of China's 60th birthday bash...
...partner in the war against al-Qaeda. The Kerry-Lugar Act which has passed the Senate, after a similar bill passed in the House last month, would provide $7.5 billion in nonmilitary aid over the next five years, in an ambitious plan to counter widespread anti-American sentiment there by helping Pakistan's civilian government deliver essential services to its population. Unlike previous no-strings aid packages, Kerry-Lugar makes support conditional on Pakistan's military being subordinated to its elected government, and taking action against militants sheltering on its soil. But by dangling the prospect of a desperately needed...
...anger that defined the Vietnam War. Sheehan held vigil outside President Bush's Texas ranch, demanding an audience with the man who ordered the war in Iraq that killed her 24-year-old son. Michael Moore's 2004 documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 created a firestorm of antiwar and anti-Bush sentiment, while thousands of civilian protesters have staged "die-ins" in Washington and across the country to give a vivid picture of the costs of the Iraq war. As that conflict appears to draw to a close, however, the U.S. military is again focusing on Afghanistan. And as it does, those...