Word: wisdoms
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...Israeli relationship and misrepresenting its very basis. In 1948 the U.S., led by Harry Truman, decided to midwife the birth of Israel out of the conviction that the Jewish people deserved a state of their own, especially after the horrors they suffered at the hands of the Nazis. The wisdom of the U.S.'s original sponsorship of Israel has been vindicated many times in many ways, by the sturdiness and vitality of Israeli democracy as well as by the richness of Israeli artistic and intellectual life. As a culture, a society and a polity-as a hospitable if sometimes...
...Washington to block the sale to Saudi Arabia of airborne warning planes (AWACS) and other hardware that the Reagan Administration announced last week. Reagan, and Carter before him, chose to make this deal a symbol of the U.S.'s commitment to the security of Saudi Arabia. Whatever the wisdom of that original American decision, a reversal now would be damaging to U.S. interests. Therefore Congress should approve the sale...
...that means interfering in Israeli internal politics, then so be it. Israel has been interfering skillfully and successfully in U.S. politics for decades, and will be doing so again with a vengeance in the weeks to come over the Saudi AWACS sale. About half the Israeli electorate questioned the wisdom of Begin's policies in the last election. Perhaps a majority will do so in the next. The U.S. might help bring that about if its Government were less timid in asserting publicly that Begin's aims and means are potentially disastrous for both Israel...
...agree, is that the Soviets could not be certain. That would be part of their gamble. The President would have only about 20 minutes to make the awful decision to launch on warning. He would have to rely on the absolute fidelity of U.S. warning devices and the instant wisdom of his advisers. Concludes Brown: "Launch on warning is a dangerous policy because it means going to war on the basis of a computer...
...snappish dog was unnecessary in the days before Garp. But after his smashing success, Irving's 19th century converted red barn became a target for autograph seekers and scraggly youths offering to do odd jobs for a chance to receive Garpian wisdom at the feet of their reluctant guru. In fact, before Irving's rugged head was known to the nation, the author was a Putney person who did advertise...