Word: weaknessness
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Morrow's is the best response to the crisis I've read. While I understand something of the government's caution, I am impatient for us to act. We must retaliate. This country cannot afford to show any weakness or indecision. The borders should be closed and troops stationed at...
Amid so many confusing proclamations of war; so many calls for action in which action is understood as bellicose; so many flag-waving cheers for armed retaliation; I am concerned that the very real pain of those killed, wounded, and mourning is in danger of being swept away. The toppling...
Already, however, peace is once again uttered wrathfully, as something beyond, as a place and time deferred. Peace, like heaven, is cast from us by those who claim that they would lead us to it. In the meantimethat is to say, our timepeace is only realistically envisioned by way of...
And he extends the tradition's emotional and psychological reach. Jakes was 10 when his father, a West Virginian who owned a janitorial business, developed a kidney ailment and died slowly over the next five years. The son comforted his mother and mopped blood from around the dialysis machine. The...
But even if Greenspan moves aggressively, it may not work. His seven cuts in eight months so far have not packed the needed firepower to reverse this torturous slowdown. Indeed, the folks who listen to Greenspan most carefully--those in the Treasury-bond pits--are starting to give up on...