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And time again I find words in TIME that I think are not well chosen. In the Oct. 14 issue, in the seventh of "7 questions to pnder" p.34: "One side argues this war could stanch terrorism, while another argues it could breed it."Stanch" can mean "check" or "stop" but seems not as good a choice as "check". Perhaps the most common use of "stanch" is to stop bleeding, to stop the loss of something valuable. Surely terrorism is not something valuable.
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they're probably thinking about terrorism as oozing out, bleeding the world... it is something that should be held in, not released. just a thought. I think there were better words they might have chosen, but the blood reference is apt...
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