Word: warriorism
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These questions hum in the background of Timberg's text: Does America need a warrior class? When? How trained? How protected from their own politicians? Should they be kept belowdecks like Ahab's harpooners and brought up only when there is a white whale to be killed? Vietnam was the white whale, sure enough...
...other words, does he have the force of will to propel himself into the main arena of national politics and the steeliness to be a good President? Even though Powell spent his life as a warrior, he never looked for fights. His success was as a bureaucrat, and a very careful one at that. "Powell is not an innovator," says a four-star general who served with him. "He is a wonderful man, but he is a solid, dependable, reliable tinkerer at the margins...
South Pacific nations andeco-protestersin several countries denounced the storming of Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior II by French commandos on Sunday, but France stood firm in its controversial plan to renewnuclear testingin September. The 15-nation South Pacific Forum said the action, in which 150 commandoes used tear gas to stop the ship before it reached French waters off the Mururoa atoll where eight tests are planned, was "totally over the top." To make matters worse, the incident fell on the 10th anniversary of the bombing of the first Rainbow Warrior by French agents in New Zealand. Protesters in London...
...Buchanan is the happiest warrior of the 1996 campaign. His poor mouthing last week masked the fact that he has made more of the past six months than any other Republican hopeful besides Dole. While his other rivals have stalled or stumbled, Buchanan has become the favorite of many conservative activists, and is running statistically even with, or ahead of the much better-financed Gramm in several early states-at one-fourth Gramm's cost. There may not be enough of them to win, but Buchanan's supporters, a Dole operative acknowledges, are the "most intense" of any current candidate...
...part of the comprehensive critique of deteriorating social fabric, the brawls demonstrate warrior instincts run amok. But at the same time, bad guys get wasted in the same manner good guys are attacked. Only the mood is supposed to change from these battles of good versus evil. When we finally see Jake for what he really is we have already been conditioned to like his brand of justice. Suddenly we are forced to cast even his justice in a negative light, and that retroactively...