Word: bulwarked
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...over Musharraf's constitutional changes, President George W. Bush remained steadfastly in his corner. "He's still tight with us in the war against terror, and that's what I appreciate," Bush said. Pakistani opposition groups argue that stronger democracy?not a stronger dictator?will be Washington's best bulwark against terror...
...stepping up the funding of regimes or institutions that had previously been anathema. On Aug. 2, Secretary of State Colin Powell, at the end of an eight-country tour of Asia, pledged $50 million in aid to Indonesia's police and military, citing that country as a potential bulwark in stopping the conceivable domino effect of terror in Southeast Asia. "This has to be a campaign not just against al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, but al-Qaeda everywhere," Powell said...
...only half the problem. A considerable portion of the Senate discussion may focus on how America might manage the consequences of such a victory. One of the major reasons the U.S. held back from marching on Baghdad during the first Gulf War was the belief that Saddam remained a bulwark of regional stability. Iraq had functioned as a strategic counterweight to Iran during the 1980s, which was why it won support from both the U.S. and the Saudis in its gruesome war with Tehran. Iraq's ethnic makeup raises fears that the state itself could be dismembered, destabilizing the regional...
...Like Afghanistan, its internal divisions are of direct national security concern to its neighbors, particularly Turkey and Iran. And its Arab neighbors to the west are reluctant to see any weakening in the power of a state long regarded as the Arab world's bulwark against the geopolitical ambitions of Iran's revolutionary Shiites. But unlike Afghanistan, Iraq is a relatively modern state possessed of a strategically crucial oil industry and considerable nasty weaponry...
...DATA Agenda is loosely modeled on the Marshall Plan, which provided Europeans with foreign assistance, debt cancellation and trade incentives to rebuild their economies after World War II, so that they could act as a bulwark against Soviet expansion. When Bono met with Colin Powell in January 2001, he brought a gift, a signed note from George C. Marshall, another military man turned Secretary of State. The rock star turns lyrical when talking about the Marshall Plan: "You still find people my parents' age in Europe who talk about the Marshall Plan. That was where Europe felt the grace...