Word: facing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...empathize with those leaders in the Black community who refuse to confront the serious problems tearing apart America's inner-cities. In the face of rampant crime, drug use and teen pregnancy, many Black leaders simply turn up the rhetoric and make excuses for these social diseases and--most recently--for Marion Barry. In doing so, they seem intent upon driving the Black underclass into further turmoil...
...face it, the plight of the Black underclass grows more uncontrollable every day. What's worse, the most helpless victims of ghetto crime and violence are not white or middle-class, but Black and poor. Yet rather than confront this breakdown in civilized behavior, many Black leaders continue to search for an oppressor...
...military face-off in the Persian Gulf does seem, as George Bush puts it, to be Iraq vs. the world. Twenty-four countries have sent powerful armies, fleets and air squadrons to confront a nation of 17 million people. If anyone needed proof that the days of old-fashioned gunboat diplomacy are gone, that should fill the bill. Iraq, along with many other Third World countries, has acquired such sophisticated, destructive armaments that even a superpower feels more comfortable about standing up to Baghdad with the help of allies...
...time off? Just weeks after winning the cold war, we face a new war in the gulf. Like Americans going off to Korea just five years after V-J day, we feel uneasy, disappointed. The more disturbed among us feel betrayed. They need to conjure up some conspiracy, some alien force (Jews, imagines the fevered Pat Buchanan) dragging us again...
...Well, now we know. Saddam Hussein has reminded Americans the world is a nasty place. Americans do not appreciate the reminder. They find it hard to accept the fact that as the planet's only remaining superpower, the U.S. is the one nation that can, and therefore must, face down the nasties...