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The deployment of ground troops has been gathering ever-greater support in the British press since it became clear that the bombing is strengthening rather than weakening Milosevic's resolve to complete the "ethnic cleansing" of Kosovo.
If the president mortgages our future by weakening defense, the price of land will fall.
A better strategy, he argues, would involve gradually undermining and weakening terrorists' bases.
Intended to counter economic shakiness in the Far East, it would damage the world's monetary markets by weakening the International Monetary Fund.
If one of the dominant motifs of Lacan's early life is his contempt for his father, as it is in this account, then it can seem virtually inevitable that his early work was about the terrible cultural consequences of the "weakening of the father imago" (there were no strong fathers anymore), and that much of his later work should be obsessed by what he called "the-name-of-the-father" and the symbolic significance of the phallus.