Word: cowboy
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...history? Hitler and Saddam were also the guys making history. It is amazing and frightening that the head of the U.S. military is intellectually incapable of perceiving some basic distinctions. Those who want to see what kind of history Bush is making should have a look at his unmistakable cowboy posturing. Yehia El-Ezabi Cairo You reported that "Bush constantly cites the example of postwar Germany and Japan to argue that it is far too soon to call Iraq a failure." But it is prewar Germany, in the years 1933-39, that gives many of us a frightening, disheartening parallel...
...politicians into cartoons. Desmond Barrit gives an icy turn as U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, and as British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Nicholas Farrell catches the vocal tics and eager body language almost too precisely. Alex Jennings' George W. Bush cannily suggests the confidence and drive beneath the cowboy persona. And the dramatic high point comes when U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell (Joe Morton) battles with Nick Sampson's silkily threatening French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin over the all-important right to a second United Nations resolution. If all that sounds more like a news story than...
...masse. California delegates donned shades inspired by Schwarzenegger’s alter ego the Terminator. The Texas Delegation took things one step further, setting aside their lone-star individualism by strutting around the floor each night with navy jackets, khakis and—what else?—cowboy hats...
...arena were conveniently running dry. This proved a problem for the medical team in section 66, members of which complained that dehydrated delegates had needed treatment at the First Aid station, along with a few “elderly delegates who had drank too much.” Easy, cowboy...
...emerging geostrategic realities and the ways in which they can be turned to advantage. Were Reagan still in office, it is almost certain that securing international cooperation would have been way down on the White House agenda. Reagan relished America's role as world policeman, a lone cowboy avenging evil. Bush knows that rounding up a posse in advance better suits today's world ... No matter how supportive the public may be of Bush's intervention today, its willingness to tolerate flag-draped coffins returning to the U.S. for weeks on end is at best problematic ... What will constitute...