Word: treasonable
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...moderation is a noble trait. Of late, however, it has taken on exaggerated proportions that are inimical to a democratic society. As currently defined, team playing does more than merely quash originality. It vouch safes us a generation of faceless robots to whom individual responsibility is equated with treason. In the extreme analysis, Adolf Eichmann, by his own admission, was the ultimate team player...
...other moderates. At one point, Khaddam announced that he was tired and hungry. Hassan turned and said that if he wanted a meal, an airplane was ready to take him back to Damascus. Finally, when Libyan Foreign Minister Abdel Ati Obeidi declared the Fahd plan to be "outright treason," Hassan could stand no more. He gaveled the meeting to a close...
Here the answer is relatively simple. How can a Western observer know better than a Pole what the Soviets are up to? All the past of Polish-Soviet relations is marked by violence and treason from the Soviet side. Of course, the official historiography keeps its mouth shut about that. But Polish people remember very well the massacre in Katyn forest, the deportations to Siberia, the betrayed Warsaw Uprising, the means by which Communist rule has been imposed on Poland since 1944. And they also remember three examples of Soviet "brotherly help": Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, Afghanistan...
...Right groups who defeated him was to recognize that one can't afford to trust one's political opponents the way McGovern did. The Right doesn't just disagree with its adversaries--it hates them. To the New Right, Barry Goldwater's friendship with McGovern is a form of treason, or at least an inadmissible sentimentality in the midst of the struggle against liberalism...
...that non-Arab Muslim fanatic to the east, Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini, who late last week called on Egyptians to overthrow "the dead Pharaoh's successors" and replace his government with a Khomeini-style Islamic republic), the Arabs felt betrayed by Sadat. What was statesmanship to the West was treason in their eyes. Of course, they envied him: they could not forgive him for getting back more Arab land by negotiating than they had achieved by other means. They were impatient; his patience seemed boundless. They felt he had given away his soul for the Sinai; he maintained...