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...write about the topic. Why validate the argument through response? Why try to use logic with a man who found it sound and reasonable to claim that manliness is the world’s most admirable virtue and that the introduction of minority students leads to a downward GPA spiral...
...you’ll find no shortage of them. There will always be something you could have done better, and there will always be people who are doing better. You can find things wrong in anything you do. It’s just too easy to hit that downward spiral, especially here, where when you look around you, everyone else seems to be staying afloat...
None of this need be done with any intention of actually fighting to provoke a war nonetheless. Other Arab governments could be propelled by a mounting spiral of popular enthusiasm to send their own forces to reinforce the frontline states. That would cue Saddam Hussein to demand his opportunity to send armored forces to threaten Israel by marching through Jordan or Syria or both. The King of Jordan would dread such contaminating assistance in his territory, and Assad of Syria too would fear it, but if the rhetorical escalation of the leaders and popular agitation heat up the climate...
...peace prize or an achievement award; it's an acknowledgment of the nominee's influence over the events that have dominated the week's headlines. And as hundreds of Israeli tanks rolled back into the cities of the West Bank and the Middle East crisis threatened to spiral out of control, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was that person. He appeared to hold in his hands the fate of the entire region - and perhaps the fate of the U.S. war on terrorism...
According to Lewis, blaming others for the condition of the Middle East leads to a pointless spiral of conspiracy theories...