Word: anti-american
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...after fighting between the Iraqi government and Shi'ite militias escalated alarmingly, anti-American militia chieftain Moqtada al-Sadr extended an olive branch. On Sunday Sadr told members of his militia to stop appearing in the streets with weapons and to halt their attacks on government institutions...
...shattered both assumptions. On the left, Jimmy Carter responded by making human rights the centerpiece of his foreign policy: America would stand up for liberty--but not militarily. Conservatives insisted that had we used more military force in Vietnam, we would have won. But as the world turned increasingly anti-American, they abandoned the conceit that when we took up arms, other nations would cheer...
...Iraqi population may be particularly sensitive to impinged autonomy given their history of oppression. And their continued sense of impinged autonomy can only increase support for anti-American insurgencies...
...much as it should. It was delivered in the morning, to a minuscule television audience. It deserved a full hearing, but most Americans heard it in sound bites and from headlines-and I imagine that for more than a few, the headline will be 'Obama Refuses to Disown His Anti-American Pastor.' This is where inexperience really hurts-not Obama's inexperience but the public's inexperience with him. For many Americans, the Wright flap is the third thing they've learned about Obama. The first two were that he is black and has a "funny" name. All too many...
...give it carte blanche to enter neighboring countries. (The type of Colombian commando unit that killed Reyes is U.S.-trained, as part of Washington's $5 billion-plus Plan Colombia aid program, ostensibly directed at curbing the drug trade.) Although many Latin capitals have grown wary of Chavez's anti-American grandstanding, it is Washington's allies in Colombia that seem isolated in the region this week...