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...announced it could not be expected "to act honorably at a time when ((foreigners)) are conspiring against us and our brothers in Iraq." If Saddam does interpose these civilians between himself and his confronters, the Western powers will face the nastiest dilemma: giving in to the demands of a vicious brute or risking thousands of innocent lives to squash...
Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then your lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough...
This determination closes the vicious circle. The U.S. cannot fight Iraq on the ground because it has no bases in the region. It has no bases because the gulf Arabs are unwilling to be seen collaborating with the friend of their enemy Israel. Unless all parties can make common cause to stand up to Iraq, history threatens to repeat itself...
...pour billions of dollars down the bureaucratic rathole of seizure and drug embargo, perhaps the public, a majority of whom believe the War on Drugs cannot be won, should look more askance at the War's leaders. And they should begin to understand that habitual drug users, rather than vicious fiends deserving punishment, are people who desperately need our help...
...Beverly Hills, recalls those glory years of the game when fierce rivalries between literary lions like Alexander Woollcott and George S. Kaufman led to marathon grudge matches on the producer's courts. Woollcott once said, "My doctor forbids me to play unless I win." He played such a vicious game that his friends made a film in which he was burned at the stake for kicking his croquet partner. When Goldwyn died, his wife, who had built the courts as a present to her husband after he could no longer play golf, turned off the water supply. Two days later...