Word: abbas
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...America is poised to send troops to help a distant people. Beyond that, U.S. involvement abroad grows inexorably as its foreign trade booms and free-market democracy becomes the world's dominant ideology. More crucially, the world still looks to its only superpower for leadership. As the Israeli statesman Abba Eban said recently, "Nothing can happen without the Americans. Everything can happen with them...
Americans did not elect Abba Eban President, however, and if we are to understand the current position of the U.S. in the world, we must first examine Bill Clinton's stewardship. The main points of the early record--bobbing and weaving on China, Somalia, Haiti and Bosnia--don't inspire confidence. Clinton's attention has been episodic and frequently prompted by domestic politics. Neither Secretary of State Warren Christopher nor National Security Advisor Anthony Lake convey to the country that they are firmly in command even as the President is busy elsewhere. All the same, Clinton's foreign policy deserves...
...Failure was built into it by an extraordinary orgy of exaggerated expectations," argues Abba Eban, the longtime former Israeli Foreign Minister and veteran U.N. diplomat. The "messianic feeling, chiefly in the U.S.," that fueled it was captured by Hull's pronouncement, Eban believes. "It was the most ill-considered statement in the history of diplomacy, because he was saying that international organization--which after all is a mechanism, not a principle--was a panacea which would make all previous diplomacy obsolete. It turned out to be totally untrue...
...salon currently uses ABBA and Paul Brown hair care products. The ABBA line offers all natural ingredients, no animal byproducts or testing, and no unnatural additives. Paul Brown features hair products from Hawaii that are designed for the Asian market. The salon is currently testing a third line, Back to Basics, a line of herbal products...
...anti-Semitic. But others who 1) believe Americans Jews are too powerful, too successful or too influential 2) deny the Holocaust occurred or 3) accuse Jews of engagin in a disproportionate share of the Atlantic slave trade are also anti-Semitic. The report reminds me of a speech by Abba Eban in the 1950s, wherein he concluded his long list of anti-Semites by declaring that the whole world was anti-Semitic...