Word: stupid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people we have to worry about are well-intentioned reformers....The road to hell is paved with good intentions. There is a price to pay for freedom and sometimes people will do stupid things. As long as these things don't affect other people the state shouldn't intervene...
...Administration seemed embarrassed at having provided U.S. cargo planes for Marcos' cash-and-carry exit. "Looking back, it was a stupid thing," said a Justice Department official. "But everything moved so fast." Indeed, in the confusion at Clark Air Base, north of Manila, where Marcos stopped before traveling to Guam and then to Hawaii, U.S. military personnel loaded the President's possessions after only a cursory inspection. Marcos claimed last week that he had originally intended to fly from Clark to his home province of Ilocos Norte. Only when the Aquino government refused to let him stay in the Philippines...
...cast, he lacks depth. Valiulis' performance is as flat as a day-old Coke, and he is constantly and annoyingly brushing the hair out of his eyes. The best of the male cast is Vanderryn as Duncan, the cowardly archduke whose motto seems to be "safety first." Stupid but vengeful enough to keep power, Duncan laughingly orders the slaughter of thousands of enemy troops, a prelude to the hilariously stupid ballon-decapitation scene...
...anti-Communist "war of liberation." Savimbi's supporters completely overlook the fact that the leader of UNITA has never professed an ideological preference for "democracy"; in fact, he has freely publicized his own preference for Stalinist-Maoist forms of totalitarianism. Savimbi is willing to ingratiate himself with whomever is stupid enough to help him install his own regime--and it appears that American interventionists have been duped by his disingenuous propaganda...
...about Ronald Reagan. They don't mention Reaganomics or the Reagan Revolution. They don't mention Reagan's philosophy or his tremendous success. They only talk about what a "fool" Reagan is: how he can't remember basic facts, how he blunders through his press conferences, how he is stupid, lazy, and surrounded by inept advisers...