Word: thoughtless
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This clarion statement of international sanity had a curious effect on its audience: stunned silence, as the assembled Europeans and Russians were confronted with a terrifying new reality. They were out of excuses, especially our NATO allies. If the U.S. was done with thoughtless bellicosity, the peaceable Euros might have to respond more substantively to our requests for them to live up to their pledges in Afghanistan. This seemed the underlying tension in Munich - the split between countries whose troops actually fight in Afghanistan and those whose troops do not. It is a breach to watch, one that could cripple...
...sentence in Iyer's otherwise sharply focused essay: "Beijing even invited Albert Speer, the son of Hitler's architect, to help design a major axis." With no evidence that Speer the son was reprehensible, to draw a parallel between him and the Nazi regime his father served is thoughtless and, yes, discriminatory. Individuals are responsible for their own acts, not those of their kin. We should steer well away from shunning someone for their parent's actions or views, no matter how despicable. Erika Eineigel, Crescent Beach, Canada...
...current discussion, if one is willing to call it that, has completely failed to address this matter sensibly, instead devolving into mean-spirited accusations and general disarray. Thoughtless rancor has driven students to argue that it is HUDS who is at fault here, and that the managers and workers are simply lazy or corrupt. On house e-mail lists, some have even gone so far as to attack specific dining-hall employees. All this bickering directed at middlemen ignores the fact of its futility and carries on, instead of discussing solutions to the actual problem, like more flexible meal plans...
...President to talk easily with blacks, as equals, without condescension. He was the best white politician I have ever seen in a black church. The bond he built with that community seemed unbreakable. And so it was shocking - heartbreaking - to see it shattered in South Carolina, shattered by a thoughtless, solipsistic need for victory at any cost...
...President to talk easily with blacks, as equals, without condescension. He was the best white politician I have ever seen in a black church. The bond he built with that community seemed unbreakable. And so it was shocking-heartbreaking-to see it shattered in South Carolina, shattered by a thoughtless, solipsistic need for victory at any cost...