Word: confrontational
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...Klein suggested that Bush is attempting to ?confront tyranny with utopian bellicosity? but gives the President credit he scarcely deserves. Far from exuding idealism, Bush seems to exhibit a messianic need to bring the rest of the world in line with the American way. Bush is no prophet. I suspect that for him, sending troops into Iraq (and perhaps Iran in the future) was merely politically expedient. If the President's commitment to freedom is as idealistic as it sounds, why not invade North Korea? And one might also consider the detainees in Guant?namo Bay, who lost their basic right...
...with Tehran. While the new government in Iraq is unlikely to mimic Iran's theocracy, it is likely to assume a foreign policy posture of friendship and cooperation with its Persian neighbor - and is unlikely to allow its territory to be used as a base for U.S. forces to confront Iran should relations deteriorate further...
...rhetoric in Bush's Inauguration speech about bringing freedom to the world [Jan. 31]? If spreading liberty around the globe were an authentic goal of this Administration, it would not rely on alliances with Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Uzbekistan. James MacKinnon Houston Klein suggested that bush is attempting to "confront tyranny with utopian bellicosity" but gives the President credit he scarcely deserves. Far from exuding idealism, Bush seems to exhibit a messianic need to bring the rest of the world in line with the American way. Bush is no prophet. I suspect that for him, sending troops into Iraq...
History Department Chair Andrew D. Gordon was one of many professors who yesterday predicted unusually high attendance and a lively debate at this afternoon’s meeting, the first chance many faculty will have to confront Summers about his Jan. 14 statement suggesting that “innate differences” may help explain the scarcity of female scientists at top universities...
...that if he hopes to make progress toward peace, he can't afford to wait. With last week's declaration of a truce between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, relations between the two sides have reached their warmest level in years--owing in large part to Abbas' willingness to confront the violence that wreaked havoc on Palestinian society under Yasser Arafat. But Abbas is in an excruciating bind. While he needs to move fast to accommodate Israeli demands, he also risks reprisals from his own people that could cost him his job and very possibly his life. No sooner...