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In the middle of the island, close to where the French army burned its flags in Montréal’s military capitulation to the British in 1760, the D.M.
U.S. officials hate this word because it connotes capitulation.
But in most of the British press, as around the world, the main story Monday was Indonesia's capitulation to international pressure by agreeing to allow a foreign peacekeeping force into East Timor.
Basic premises: Clinton's reckless, repeated adultery weakens essential moral codes; his betrayal of vows and his lies undermine public trust; his use of legal chicanery to duck ethical responsibility is cowardly and grotesque; the public's silence in the face of this is a capitulation, "moral disarmament"; and America, which has always believed that politicians' moral behavior matters, must start judging Clinton's character.
Since then, as bien-pensant American opinion has embraced the "peace process," Said has bemoaned Arafat's "capitulation" and grown increasingly disgusted with the chairman's dictatorial rule over a few scraps of occupied territory and with Israel's continued expropriation of Palestinian lands.