Word: cautiousness
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...address the issue, says Dr. Sima Samar, Chairwoman of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission. "We expect the International forces to do better," she says. "The Taliban do not abide by international human rights and humanitarian law. The international forces and the Afghan National Army have to be more cautious than the Taliban. Otherwise they will lose the trust of the people...
...American soldiers patrolling Baghdad's dangerous neighborhoods are under no illusions; many treat Iraqi soldiers and policemen with suspicion sometimes bordering on hostility. Higher up the chain of command, there are still optimists, but even they are growing more cautious. Lieut. General Martin Dempsey, the American general until recently responsible for training Iraqi forces, gave a guarded assessment of their quality not long ago, telling of absenteeism and desertion from the ranks, and the scarcity of officers. Most of the Iraqi battalions in the surge are woefully undermanned, he said. Nonetheless, Dempsey maintained that the Iraqis would be "capable...
...NATO decision brings closer the first agreement to reduce nuclear arsenals. But Secretary of State George Shultz remains cautious. "Problems of verification are very complex," he said in Reykjavik. The U.S. and the Soviets, he added, "are both into discussing things that haven't been done before...
...American bishops: that they stop ordaining gay bishops and blessing gay unions and that they create a special bishop to serve the needs of conservatives. What happens if they refuse? An absolute blanket no to all of this would pose a real problem. We've had indications of a cautious yes to part...
...inflated self-estimations and more a range of human beings with diverse talents and ways of making the world a better place. The other concrete need is for the entire University community to recognize that the world is not color-blind, and that a careful, self-conscious, and hyper-cautious level of procedural circumspection is sometimes necessary in order to guarantee fairness to those who “fit the description.” However, institutional action is but a potential catalyst to the social change that is really needed. On a diverse campus and in the prime of their...