Word: callously
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Soft. That word may be the root of Shimon Peres' galling defeat. Many voters mistrusted his New Middle East as just the feel-good visions of a naif. His attempt to buttress his security credentials by ordering a callous 17-day bombardment of Lebanon that killed as many as 200 civilians alienated many more Israeli-Arab voters than it earned him Jewish ones. Leah Rabin, wife of the Prime Minister slain by a right-wing extremist last November, criticized Peres' high-minded refusal to exploit the assassination for electoral advantage. He never responded in kind to Likud's pointed, simplistic...
...Wednesday, April 10, President Clinton vetoed a proposed abortion bill which would have served to ban late-term abortions known as "partial-birth" abortions. It is the position of the Harvard Republican Club that President Clinton's veto was both a revolting and extraordinarily callous attempt to pander to the far-left and extremist abortion proponents. This pandering serves only to protect Clinton from backlash from the left wing of the Democratic Party, rather than to protect the unborn from an egregiously gruesome form of death...
Portraying Weld as a callous politician, Kerry accused him of making "a political career out of picking on people on welfare" and called the governor's standards for welfare "Draconian...
...statement is callous and reeks of an apologist approach to violence. To suggest that bombings are warranted against a people who have taken courageous steps towards peace, to the point of compromising their own security, is contemptible. No one is to blame for the evil of blowing children to pieces except those that perpetrate that evil...
...such, one which is clearly dissonant with any interpretation of the nation's interests. The much lauded "exit plan" fantastically assumes our ability to retreat from the Bosnian situation once we have morally as well as physically entangled ourselves within it. One would hope that no president is so callous as to renege on an already assumed responsibility. For as many predictions and guarantees have been made, when the time for withdrawal approaches and the situation is at best unstable, global political pressures will force our extended presence within the artificially constructed federations...