Word: blustering
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...says Dennis Jett, Dean of the International Center at the University of Florida in Gainesville. However, Jett and other analysts wonder whether Tehran's romancing of Managua may mark a change in that status. "You have to wonder what the Iranians are thinking as Mr. Bush goes through his bluster and threatens military action against Iran," says Jett. "It wouldn't surprise me that if they found a willing partner in Nicaragua that they would put some terrorist capability into Nicaragua and Venezuela, because it's that much closer to the United States if they have...
Reports that the Bush Administration will put Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the terrorism list can be read in one of two ways: it's either more bluster or, ominously, a wind-up for a strike on Iran. Officials I talk to in Washington vote for a hit on the IRGC, maybe within the next six months. And they think that as long as we have bombers and missiles in the air, we will hit Iran's nuclear facilities. An awe and shock campaign, lite, if you will. But frankly they're guessing; after Iraq the White House...
...energy blowing away like dust in the proverbial wind. As a freshman, I was in way over my head. Fresh off Lester Brown’s “Eco-Economy,” a Bible for anti-capitalist environmentalists everywhere, I was full of big ideas and bluster, little of which I really understood. Learning how to navigate Harvard’s administrative labyrinth could be a full-time job, and I just didn’t have that kind of time. After all, I had to pick a concentration and comp The Crimson. The next fall was similar...
Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz ripped into Jimmy Carter last night with all his hallmark bluster, excoriating the former President for refusing to engage in a debate and calling his latest book an “ahistorical” work. In a 90-minute solo appearance at Emerson Hall, Dershowitz extended his public assault on Carter’s book “Palestine: Peace not Apartheid,” which was released in November. He criticized the book’s argument and called Carter’s writing irresponsible, saying that the situation in Israel could...
...unit to the Gulf and a U.S. aircraft carrier to the region as a show of force. In his mild voice, Gates said Iran was playing a "very negative" role in Iraq and thinks the U.S. is "tied down" by its mission in Iraq. Then, with none of the bluster of Rumsfeld but all the punch, Gates delivered an unmistakable message-the U.S. was, by shuffling military assets on Iran's doorstep, signaling that it has a "strong presence" because of its "long-term strategic interests" in the Gulf...