Word: blusterous
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...lost the Iraq war a long time ago. President George W. Bush had no idea what he was getting us into. Now we all know that bluster and posturing don't win a conflict. If we can't stabilize Iraq, how can that country's ragtag police ever do so? Maybe peace would come if our occupation forces left...
...demanded an apology from the Khartoum government after members of her traveling party were manhandled by Sudanese security agents; she got one within an hour. At home, Rice has wrested control over the tone and direction of U.S. foreign policy away from war-cabinet hard-liners, curbing their unilateralist bluster. She persuaded President George W. Bush to support negotiations with North Korea and Iran over their nuclear programs, though both countries have balked at offers from the U.S. and its allies. In the process, she has cemented her status as the President's most trusted lieutenant, a relationship that makes...
Hearing that bluster, one might assume that Chávez fancies himself a 21st century Fidel Castro. Chávez does idolize Castro, rarely missing an opportunity to be seen with the Cuban leader--like last week, when, with Castro at his side, he announced a regional "solidarity" fund to give cash-strapped Caribbean countries cheaper access to Venezuelan oil. Although Chávez was democratically elected, he flirts with autocracy. And he indulges in Castroesque paranoia about the U.S.: This summer Venezuelan civilians are training alongside the army in antiaircraft and antitank warfare so they will be able to thwart the next...
...uneasily between the two superpowers. Once invisible Soviet officials now stage on-the-record press briefings for Western reporters. The courtly spokesman for the Soviet Foreign Ministry, Vladimir Lomeiko, laces his commentary with quotes from George Bernard Shaw and deftly cuts off other Kremlin officials when they begin to bluster...
...last two weeks the sheer volume of bluster and bravado swirling around the federal courts has been dizzying. In the attempt to drum up public support for some less-than-moderate judicial nominees, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist R-Tenn. intoned “The filibuster was once used to protect racial bias, and now it is being used against people of faith...