Word: shielding
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...week's end the Bush administration was urging Sharon to withdraw, and the absence of a clear endgame in "Operation Defensive Shield" caused considerable consternation in the Israeli media. But Ariel Sharon is a practical man, a field commander more comfortable with tactical improvisation than grand strategic visions. His preferred method is to change the "facts on the ground," creating new faits accompli that develop a life of their own and change the terms of grand strategic debate. That's the rationale for the settlement movement - to stake an Israeli claim on the lands captured in 1967 by simply seizing...
...Sharon won on promises of security, but the unending wave of attacks on Israelis has seen his popularity tumble - and amplified the challenge of the resurgent Netanyahu. "Operation Defensive Shield" has been Sharon's response, an attempt to transform the situation on the ground through a massive military strike he hopes will hobble Palestinian terror cells and militias, and also eliminate his nemesis, Arafat, as a factor in Israeli political life...
...Shield (FX, Tuesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.) was inspired by Los Angeles' Rampart police scandal. But it asks a question that is all too relevant in the days of liberty vs. security: How far do we want our protectors to go in our name? There's no simple answer. Mackey (played by Michael Chiklis, of the lame sitcom Daddio, with surprising cocksure charisma), runs the elite strike-team unit in one of L.A.'s. toughest precincts. But the unit is really a gang itself--corrupt, racist and bullying (even to other cops) and running its own testosterone-charged...
Like Mackey, The Shield is a self-consciously different animal. Its envelope-pushing nudity and obscenity--it makes NYPD Blue look like Barney Miller--can be too showy, its sicko criminals too baroquely quirky. But it's already the most riveting player in the tapped-out field of cop dramas, a moral no-man's-land where crime fighting is tough, but justice is the hard part...
...BETTER SHIELD...