Word: confusionism
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When Russia first sent troops to Chechnya, the world reacted with deep uncertainty. On the one hand, the use of force was frowned upon. On the other, Russia certainly had the right to police its own territory. As Russia's "little war" has become increasingly bloody though, the confusion has...
While the allies are left feeling whipsawed, the Serbs are only too . delighted to exploit the confusion. This they have achieved by doing everything to handicap the peacekeepers short of actually driving them out. On Dec. 11, Serbs announced a ban on U.N. military escorts of humanitarian convoys, thereby making...
Into the middle of this confusion waded the master practitioner of nice-guy diplomacy, Jimmy Carter. After representatives of Radovan Karadzic, leader of the Bosnian Serbs, sent emissaries to the former President last Wednesday, Carter called Clinton to let him know that he was considering stepping in as a private...
But when circumstances allowed him to act, John Paul did so decisively. His major goals have been to clarify church doctrine -- believers may experience doubt but should be spared confusion -- and to reach out to the world, seek contacts with other faiths and proclaim to all the sanctity of the...
"I think the confusion is because we have an attempt to present an application as if it's completely tabula rasa and has no context," Epps said. "If we don't [consider the context], we're likely to make decisions that would lead to detriment in the long run."