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While rebuking Hitler for declaring war against the Western democracies, Nolte offered an implicit justification of the Holocaust as an anxious, reactive measure sparked by "the previous practices and exterminations by the Russian Revolution."
The Lewinsky affair, she believes, has sparked a hysterical backlash against sexual harassment laws.
This has rekindled the concern and outrage sparked a few weeks ago by the similar death of a pledge at Louisiana State University.
Hillary Clinton's statements on the Palestinian situation also sparked discussion: She "never, ever had any business making policy statements, let alone take part in policy-making" vs. "She certainly has a right to speak without being accused of wearing the pants in the presidency."
The Reagan administration's own proposal to eliminate nuclear weapons was sparked by the peacenik slogan "zero option."