Word: unraveling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ensure that nothing like that would happen again. "The fall of Srebrenica was a blow to the credibility of the West, and we are the leader of the West," said a senior State Department official. "If we didn't respond with U.S. leadership, the situation was going to unravel." Added a senior White House official: "This was a turning point for the President...
...snarly a skein to unravel here. The Usual Suspects flatters you into thinking you're thinking, sorting out the dead ends and red herrings, when you are really being toyed with by an intelligence as devious as Soze's. For those who don't care whodunit, the film has superior skulking by some wonderfully actory actors and brings high-wire wit to its high-gloss gamesmanship...
Whether or not Vietnam was a just was is a question that I cannot pretend to answer. The history behind Vietnam is terribly complex and almost impossible to unravel even in hindsight. The men that fought and died in Vietnam should be honored to the fullest extent possible. America called them to serve, and they went. But, for all the pain and suffering that it caused so many people across the world, Vietnam is done. For all it was and was not worth, Vietnam is done, and policy makers of today can not let the shadows of the past control...
...from China are more vociferous than ever. If the Tibetans escalate their fight in a lastchance response (and here timing in post-Deng China would be critical), the effects would easily spill into neighboring regions. The very stability that China has been emphasizing over the past two years will unravel. Remember: martial law was imposed on Tibet three months before Tiananmen Square...
Surely it is arrogant for us to think that beings as insignificant as ourselves will ever unravel the mystery of the universe. After all, why should a dog be able to understand why it barks? For all we know, the earth may be nothing more than a virus in the belly of some incomprehensible organism...