People from Poland are Poles, they are not Polacks!

To prove that you are great and alive and the others are small and dead.

Look, here you sit waiting for a twobit holdup and you've got a gold mine right in your hands.

Today's great powers have relied on similar methods, also heavy with rhetoric, against puny opponents, but with far less convincing results.

The American preference for making anti communist allies, however unsavory, tied Washington to Pakistan s increasingly Islamist dictatorship, while India s non aligned democracy drifted toward the secular Soviet embrace.