Word: cautioned
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...doing his best to lower expectations and never hiding the fact that his trip came in response to calls from moderate Arab states and other U.S. allies for Washington to do more to keep a lid on the conflict. Failure of the cease-fire will simply vindicate his initial caution and skepticism over the wisdom of the Bush administration trying to play referee...
...even more important to them to have Powell and the CIA playing that refereeing role. They believe Powell and Tenet will be honest brokers. And obviously accepting the refereeing role gives the U.S. more leverage. But it's a role the administration will approach with caution. The core of the Bush criticism of Clinton was that he squandered his political capital by becoming too intimately involved, and both Powell and the President will be reluctant to be drawn in too directly...
...have a silver bullet. The U.S. has been sucked back in to the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, but it was only a matter of time before that happened. They were trying to be judicious about it, and they may have more realistic expectations about what they can achieve. The caution with which they're proceeding is part of the lesson learned from the Clinton years. Still, at some point they calculated that staying out was more dangerous to U.S. interests throughout the region than going...
...more than 100 species of large animals has long seemed preposterous. While Homo sapiens certainly killed and ate the likes of mammoths and mastodons, notes Ross MacPhee, an expert on mammalian extinctions at New York City's American Museum of Natural History, it must have done so with great caution. As he puts it: "If some guy walked up to a mammoth armed only with a pointy stick, chances are he would have been road pizza within minutes...
...Their argument, if not their reasoning, had plenty of supporters: Even if the newly uncovered evidence contained no exculpatory evidence, some reasoned it would be safer for Matsch to err on the side of caution - especially in a case so rife with anti-government, anti-establishment tensions...