Word: sentimentals
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...usual, in matters that pit Americans against Europeans, there's plenty of mutual ignorance. Americans don't understand that for Europeans, whose memory of war crimes is deep, anything that codifies the rightful conduct of war is ipso facto desirable. Europeans seem unable to appreciate the import of congressional sentiment against the court. Congress (unlike most European parliaments) is not a rubber stamp; it has a constitutional role in international affairs, and it takes it seriously...
...Through terror attacks against U.S. targets, al-Qaeda hopes to rally the virulent anti-American sentiment on the Arab streets, and to show potential supporters that their enemy is vulnerable to the actions of determined "jihadis." They can't hope to destroy America through terrorism, but they do believe that they have a fighting chance of fomenting a crisis that provokes the collapse of the pro-Western regimes in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan and elsewhere. It is that battle for the hearts and minds of the Arab street that explains the centrality of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in al-Qaeda...
...wasn't a whistle-clean success?if such a thing is imaginable in Afghanistan?and in the raid's aftermath, anti-U.S. sentiment is rising around strategically important Kandahar...
...Cromwell wrote an op-ed in The Crimson in February in which he criticized what he called “the persistent anti-ROTC sentiment on Harvard’s campus...
...academic standards and on study abroad Summers probably had a comparatively easy time. Because Summers’ opinions lined up so well with the underlying Faculty sentiment, all it took was a challenge...