Word: smartly
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...successful, or Saddam would not be trying to extricate his army from Kuwait. Last week Schwarzkopf told the Los Angeles Times that Iraq's armed forces had been so badly damaged that they were "on the verge of collapse." For the past two weeks, Schwarzkopf's aides maintain, allied smart bombs have been knocking out Iraq's main battle tanks at the rate of 100 a day. At week's end they announced Iraq had lost, at a minimum, 1,685 tanks (out of a prewar total of 4,280), 925 armored personnel carriers...
Says Haggard, "They are allowing him no opportunity for claiming victory. There is no interest on the part of the Administration. Whether it is a smart move remains to be seen. They have as two possible models Versailles and Japan...
Telling other people you are taking Moral Reasoning impresses them and makes you feel smart. People treat you differently when they know you are an expert in "Ethics and International Relations," "Autonomy and Alienation," and "Reason and Evaluation." You won't actually learn any morality or ethics, but you will pick up enough rhetorical ammunition to blast anyone who questions your actions on moral grounds...
People who watch the television reports from Baghdad bomb sites and turn purple with rage at the persuasive effect these may be having on viewers are saying, in essence: I am smart enough to put all this information in its proper perspective, but other people are stupider than I. I will sort out the facts from the propaganda, fill in what's missing (e.g., unshown brutalities % in Kuwait) and make an intelligent judgment, but other people won't. I can absorb the emotional impact of the terrible imagery of war without losing my ability to reason, but other people cannot...
...their argument, if taken seriously, would foreclose reporting most information from the allied side, since it also is censored and one-sided. We see videos of smart bombs hitting buildings but no videos of stupid bombs missing buildings. Yes, sure, we can trust the good guys more than we can trust the bad guys. But that is because we believe the good guys are generally committed to truth as a value in its own right. That belief is undermined by those who argue that we should deny ourselves the truth from Baghdad for our own good...