Word: confrontational
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...does the other group currently in the spotlight, the Palestinian Islamist organization Hamas. The U.S. has sound reasons for wanting to constrain these groups, principally that they threaten our ally Israel. But those reasons have largely gone unarticulated as Bush falls back on maxims about the need to confront terrorism, as if Hizballah and Hamas are likely to be behind the next spectacular that will top 9/11. They are not, and pretending that they are costs the U.S. credibility, risks driving terrorist groups that aren't allied into alliance and obscures the real issues at hand in the Middle East...
...Smoking cigarettes and a hookah, eating humus and peaches, we argue our cases with passion. The real threat, we conclude, is Iran. But how and when should Israel confront Iran? There are many moral and tactical questions that come up during our debates, and easy answers are not to be found. But this much is certain: We all want “peace time?...
...studies English and computer science all seven, that she would be better off at home with her rice-farmer parents; or Minh, a business student working twelve-hour shifts as a waitress six days a week. It’s not easy for them to confront social norms that would limit them to the role of a subordinate worker in a society run by men. Yet they persist, promoting change person by person. Society could do with more of such defiance of the status quo, in both east and west.Juliet S. Samuel ’09, a Crimson editorial editor...
...seven years into his career as a member of the Knesset, he enrolled in an officer-training course, emerging as a second lieutenant and polishing his political résumé.) Not that Olmert seems fazed by his past: he is outwardly macho and even arrogant. "He is not afraid to confront anyone, to make his place in history," says an aide to a Cabinet minister...
...rare admission for a senior Ba'athist, al-Douri said the Saddam regime had blundered in its military strategy at the beginning of the U.S.-led invasion. Rather than allow the Iraqi military to confront the coalition forces in open combat, he believes the leadership "should have husbanded the army's strength and means till the second page had been turned." Still, he claims that Saddam's military bounced back, suggesting that elements of the old army are responsible for 95% of insurgent operations against coalition forces...