Word: moralizes
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...chaos once the superpowers lost interest in 1989 - the Soviets withdrew as a prelude amid the collapse of their empire, and the U.S. stayed out of the ongoing battle of the mujahedeen to unseat Moscow's puppet government. By 1992, the Afghan warriors President Reagan had heralded as the "moral equivalent of our Founding Fathers" were each others' throats in a bloody civil war that had killed many thousands of Afghans and showed no signs of ending. Pakistan helped create and train the Taliban, in the hope that its defeat of most rival factions would stabilize Afghanistan on Pakistan...
Another member wrote that only after people knew their HIV status could they “have the privilege of making the personal moral decision of lying to help people in need...
...cannot afford to compromise what it is our aim to protect—the basic freedoms and civil liberties that all Americans enjoy. While increased security measures will no doubt become part of our daily lives, ultimately only the personal liberty our country embodies can combat the intellectual and moral myopia that leads to terrorism...
...able to identify Asian nations and the ocean that separates North America from Asia by name, the United States faces serious problems in the not distant future. Although we may know facts, statistics, and names, it is difficult for Americans to understand the different value systems, codes of moral conduct, priorities and ways of thinking that exist in Asia, which often conflict with...
...That's healthy. It's not the end of the world if one of Washington's players is taken down a notch or two. But Powell and the office he holds are different. His stellar career, inspiring personal history and reputation for integrity have endowed him with a unique moral stature. Americans?and the rest of the world?want to see him use that to great ends. From the start, his presence at Bush's side conferred an extra legitimacy on an untried President, supplied experience to temper gut instinct. Powell's rich store of respect and goodwill lent confidence...