Word: weaponize
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...ghost detainees being held without documentation to avoid their being examined by the International Red Cross, and of Army Rules of Engagement that instructed guards to follow a frightening escalating sequence of coercive tactics in their dealing with prisoners: ‘Shout, Shove, Show [a weapon], Shoot.’” Perhaps as frightening as the treatment of these prisoners is the approach taken towards them by the U.S. military: these are not prisoners in any ordinary sense of the word; they are, rather, detainees, held in deprivation of the very liberties America purportedly invaded Iraq...
...expected a positive response--not just words, although they were nice words--from America and Europe. Blair and Bush expressed their satisfaction. But there must be at least a declaration of a program like the Marshall Plan, to show the world that those who wish to abandon the nuclear-weapon program will be helped. They promised, but we haven't seen anything...
...fact, Bush's declaration of war on tyranny reminded me of nothing so much as Johnson's announcement of an "unconditional" war on poverty: "It will not be a short or easy struggle," Johnson proclaimed to the Congress in 1964. "No single weapon or strategy will suffice, but we will not rest until that war is won. The richest nation on earth can afford to win it. We cannot afford to lose...
...gets deeper over the decades. Some Republicans say that move alone could kill Bush's plan. "Any effort to change the benefit pattern just virtually guarantees you can't get anything done," Gingrich warns. "The Democrats and labor are putting together a massive campaign. If you give them a weapon that big, they're going to succeed...
...Year's Eve in Precinct 13, and the dozen or so folks inside--cops and perps alike--may not live long enough to watch a bowl game. Outside, a faceless horde is barraging the station with every weapon of destruction short of those not found in Saddam's Iraq, blasting craters in the windows and doors. The good guy in charge has some artillery, but he's short of manpower. One of the prisoners has a suggestion: "Why don't you give me one of those guns, Sergeant? I'll help fend off the black hats." It happens that this...