Brinkley seems to dismiss the argument that the extensive bombing, with its tens, maybe hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths, might have added urgency to Sihanouk's plea to join the Khmer Rouge.
But for the families of thousands of Bosnian Muslim victims of those atrocities, advocates of the international justice system and European politicians judging Serbia's plea to join the European Union, the time for excuses has long run out: Serbia, they argue, has not done its full duty by arresting Mr. Karadzic alone.
Woodrow Wilson got his taste of the Senate's wrath after World War I, when it rejected his plea to join the League of Nations.
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A military hero, he rejected pleas to join a land war in Vietnam, exercised "great prudence" when Soviet tanks rolled into Hungary and resisted calls to use nuclear weapons against Communist foes in Asia, telling aides: "you boys must be crazy".
Over the past month, my e-mail inbox has been filled with a stream of increasingly dire pleas to join the chorus.
When in 1648 her second son, Charles Louis, was restored to the Palatinate, he ignored her pleas to join him, and in 1650 a pension from the House of Orange ceased.
He has turned down the prime minister's repeated pleas to join the cabinet; he has shied away from projecting himself as his party's choice for prime minister in 2014; as its general secretary, he has spoken out against dynasty and tried to make his party fairer, less sycophantic.
Insisting that the strategy "can work", he ended with a plea to the House of Representatives to join the Senate in passing a bill to provide funds for the Afghan war as a matter of urgency.
