Word: shock
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...suspects Iranian involvement and sends an ultimatum to Tehran. Israel takes the American side; Russia lines up with the Iranians ... It's not a wholly implausible sequence. And some central bankers admit privately that they would have to struggle to counter the liquidity crunch that such a geopolitical shock would trigger. A stock-market shutdown in 2007? History warns us not to rule...
...release of the Iraq Study Group's report gave me hope that the U.S. will move back to a more cooperative foreign policy [Dec. 18]. In the shock following 9/11, the U.S. Administration stepped into a trap laid by al-Qaeda. Five years later, civil rights are restricted the world over, Islamic radicals have gained strength, and the so-called war on terrorism has produced more hostile fighters. I hope it is now understood that bombs don't spread democracy, whether in Iraq or in Lebanon. Real strength means you reach out to the other side and work...
...into Washington National Cathedral, you could hear the august music of Hail to the Chief. Inside the church, George W. Bush and three of his predecessors were gathered. But for the moment, there was only one chief who mattered, the man who once helped the nation weather a grievous shock to its system. In his eulogy, George H.W. Bush said it best: "Gerald Ford's decency was the ideal remedy for the deception of Watergate...
...insult was very revealing. Like Saddam, most Iraqi Sunnis view Sadr as all but a paid-up Iranian agent, and his militia, the Mahdi Army, as an Iranian creation.The Sunnis are convinced that one day, given the opportunity, Sadr will hand Iraq over to Iran. For all the shock Iraq's Sunnis felt on hearing Sadr's name shouted at Saddam's execution, Iranian diplomats might as well have been in attendance...
...know what number McClung was in the count of Americans who've died in Iraq, a figure that reached 3,000 New Year's Eve. But she was the first member of the military I've personally known, if only briefly, who's been killed. The shock and sadness I felt upon seeing her dead is nothing more than a splinter of pain compared to what those who loved her must now feel. Still, the moment allowed me to begin to grasp the depth of anguish felt now by so many Americans and Iraqis who've lost loved ones...