But it must be matched by a comprehensive political and diplomatic effort to mitigate the destabilizing regional consequences of a war that the outgoing Bush administration started deliberately, justified
demagogically and waged badly.
The fact that the political parties in the island have co-opted (sometimes
demagogically so, as Pabon rightly asserts) the juridical issue and turned it into a theater of national identity does not imply that the juridical discussion of Puerto Rico in the sphere of nations should be automatically discarded or seen as useless.
This entails understanding national or political interests as existing "interdependently" with the interests of others: "So national interests are not to be brought into play naively or even
demagogically. They have to be accounted for ethically, not only in the 'cabinet' which is directly responsible for policies, but ...
(17) Thaksin has used this possibility from the very beginning when he
demagogically asked how a few appointed constitution court judges could possibly find him guilty when 16 million voters wanted him to govern them.
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell put it most
demagogically when he claimed the Bush Administration was trying to redefine Geneva and would lead others to ''doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism'' and ''put our own troops at risk.''
Regressive policies on the minimum wage have nothing to do with "saving social security" (as Lula
demagogically claimed), but are instead a way to accumulate an exorbitant budget surplus to pay wealthy bondholders who are a high priority for the big-business cabinet.
ZB: I think since 9-11, the Democratic leadership has been in disarray and essentially following the president's lead, with some of its top figures actually acting as cheerleaders for the president's
demagogically defined war.
There is a considerable gap between the stated goals of these organizations, which are theoretically and
demagogically supported by their founder states, and what they actually can do.
Moreover, certain
demagogically anti-American books cited earlier do substantiate his accusations.
The 9/11 connection is ceaselessly,
demagogically promoted by the Administration.
A concept's shallowness as an analytical device may allow it to be more formidable as a rhetorical or ideological one, for while seeming scholarly, it is elastic enough to mean anything that is
demagogically useful.
(35.) Johnson (1998, 36) writes: "Thus Hitler and the Nazis were enabled in no small measure to seize power by
demagogically exploiting popular--and populist--outrage at the banking system, the Depression, and capitalism in general....
The numbers in our examples ar e arbitrary, but in contrast with those of Behe, they are more relevant to the real world of biology and, even more importantly, they are not
demagogically misinterpreted.
Yet in the put-them-all-in-prison-frenzy of the past twenty years, politicians have
demagogically attacked federal aid to people in prison, despite the fact that no pers on outside of prison was ever denied a grant because someone inside received one and despite the insignificant amount of money actually granted to prisoners.
It is hypocritical to talk about making the United Nations more democratic while in the democracies themselves citizens are undemocratically and
demagogically deceived about and provoked against it by their very own leaders and media.
