The New York Times columnist Nick Kristoff accused the prime minister of "mounting a scorched-earth offensive" against Yunus.
Sheikh Hasina, prime minister of Bangladesh, is mounting a scorched-earth offensive against Muhammad Yunus, the founder of Grameen Bank and champion of the economic empowerment of women around the world.
Scorched-earth offensives starved them off their land: since hunting them down was too time-consuming, one white soldier wrote, "It was therefore decided that the best policy was to destroy their huts and stores, with a view of starving them out".
But aside from his usual acerbic take-no-prisoners, let fly with the cracks style, the talk show host didn't say anything that was earth shatteringly offensive.
Why was run a business "vulgar — hardly better than slang," and dirt (for earth) "disagreeable," and expectorate "offensive," and electrocution "disgusting"?
That's right, here's your chance to show the world your best/weirdest/gnarliest/most offensive and beautiful work, and get it published in the best magazine on earth (according to us).
But how on earth can T-shirts as offensive as these have been designed, manufactured and sold by one of Britain's biggest and most mainstream stores?
All could have basic offensive spells: ice, wind, earth, you get the idea.
Analysts say the sexual violence that defined the offensive was part of a scorched-earth campaign employed by the government to terrorize civilians and take back land lost to the opposition.
Devastation by fire was not only used as an offensive tactic; some countries and armies employed 'scorched earth' policies on their own land to deprive invading armies of all food and forage.
Furthermore, I found it offensive that he would rather visit any place on earth than Israel, because to him "Israel has always felt less like a country than a politically iffy burden".
