Unfavorable Result Quotes
over civilian casualties of American attacks The military over-promoted our smart weapons degree of capability to where most people thought that the weapons and the intelligence was much more accurate and controllable than it was. When innocent Afghan civilians were killed by American use of smart weapons, the Afghan’s believed that the only two explanations were that the Americans wanted to kill the civilians or that they didn’t care enough to carfully use their smart weapons properly.
The Smithsonian in 1888 had started a “Department of Living Animals” and had 172 at the time whereas earlier all animals were stuffed. At the time no one was quite sure whether or not there would be any public interest in a zoo. This initial request for $200,000 to buy property on which to place the zoo was turned down as historically zoos were created by royalty and the very rich and didn’t seem democratic to many members of the House. Others however, saw the role of democracy as bringing to ordinary people what had historically been available only to royalty and the wealthy. See {629321} . The Speaker was not an enthusiast for the zoo and the House had voted it down in the previous session, but there had been a surge in popular opinion and Congressmen had been extensively lobbied by advcates for the upper and working classes. The Speaker was a realist as the quotation indicates, but he was not as tactful as later speakers were.
