Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BRITISH AUTHOR NICHOLAS EVANS was slowly picking at a dinner roll during a banquet in Bellevue, Washington, sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. He was regaling the table with some Western trivia he had picked up while doing research for his best-selling novel The Horse Whisperer. The bookstore owners listened attentively as he described "pitchfork fondue," a delicacy prepared by melting chunks of lard in a huge kettle, then dunking slabs of beef into the oozing caldron with a trident...
...Today's Western leaders were all too willing to allow Bosnia to be carved up into ethnic enclaves--a sure recipe for future combat. Only the fierce intransigence of the Bosnian Muslims stopped the disastrous Vance-Owen "peace plan" from giving the Serbs nearly everything they wanted. When will the nations of the free world learn that one cannot buy peace from the merchants of tyranny...
...British subjects were celebrating "peace in our time" in the streets of London, Winston Churchill rose in the House of Commons to indict the leaders of his day with words that are applicable to today's generation. "Terrible words have for the time being been pronounced against the Western democracies: "Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting." We must never forget...
...streets of Warsaw. The city erupted in a valiant rebellion. But the rocks and slings of these modern-day Davids were no match for the armor of the German Goliath. The Soviet Red Army, parked only 10 miles from Warsaw, coldly watched thousands of Poles being slaughtered. The Western democracies were outraged and this became one of the prime pieces of evidence on the side of those who believed that the Soviets could not be trusted in the post-war world...
Today, The U.S.S. Theodore Roosevelt glides stealthily in the Adriatic Sea off the coast of what once was Yugoslavia. Ironically, the motto of the Western powers for most of the Bosnian conflict has been to "Speak hypocritically and thwack yourself with a small twig." Western leaders regularly repeat their mantra of how "Bosnia was a great failure of Western leadership," as if they are speaking of some other Western leaders and that with the admission of guilt all their sins are absolved...