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"Will strafing Iraqi military installations one more time make the Middle East a safer place--or will it only serve to perpetuate Saddam's malign influence by perversely giving him added kudos with his long-suffering people?"
But, as it is, you come off as just another self-appointed jerk who appears to write articles mainly for the pleasure of seeing his name and opinions in print, instead of being a person who uses words to persuade rather than to malign.
I blurbed The Kiss . The book scared me, not because it concerns incest or happens to be true but because of the malign figure of the father, who reminded me of the character played by Robert Mitchum in The Night of the Hunter . I also appreciated the drugged cadence of the prose, with a chasm between every two sentences, and the frozen stare of the insistent present tense.
Veeps should never malign or crudely distance themselves from their presidents.
It depends on the civilization you'd care to malign."