Word: moralizes
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...Nuremberg trials of the Nazis showed, that is not a justifiable excuse. No individual possessing even an ounce of humanity would execute such orders. But the American soldiers did. Bush would have us believe that those troops do not represent American values. Yet they do show a moral black hole in the American psyche. Oke G. Pamp Tweed, Canada...
...understand Gibbs' lament that we Americans are losing our moral authority, but as a Vietnam veteran, I want to tell people that the real problem is the evil of war. When we follow in lockstep behind an Administration that has rained down high-tech death on thousands of innocent Iraqis while our own country faces no imminent threat, how can we think the U.S. had any moral authority to begin with? If ever we are to claim some semblance of respect, we must become champions of nonviolent conflict-resolution policies, something about which the Bush Administration seems to have...
...Perils Of A Righteous President" [May 17], columnist Joe Klein criticized Bush's moral certainty and stated that "faith without doubt leads to moral arrogance." But faith with doubt is anything but faith. The atrocities that occurred at Abu Ghraib were detestable, but if this nation valued the integrity, morality and righteous Christian faith of our President, the acts at the prison would never have taken place. In a country that arrogantly prizes unaccountability, it is no wonder that a few of our service members acted in such a cruel and heinous way. ELIZABETH COOK Pinckney, Mich...
...before objective indicators confirmed that fact. And that optimism and confidence in itself helped to turn things around. Today, politicians of both parties routinely seek to capture some of the Reagan magic. There was the easy average-Joe charisma in his every communication with his electorate; the proclamation of moral clarity that framed political choices in terms of core beliefs; the strategy (mimicked by President Clinton) of using his skills as a communicator to appeal directly to the electorate over the heads of Congress when it was in the hands of his enemies; even the famous "Teflon" coating that allowed...
...generation is as I say it is. That we can break the Organization Kid mold on occasion doesn’t diminish the concerns outlined in the New York Times article and doesn’t begin to address Brooks’ criticism about character building and moral discourse. But I do think this flexibility to be something other than purely goal-driven success machines is one that will serve us well in the future...