Word: cowboy
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...want to tell you directly, from my own mouth, why I feel the way I do about this." And then Edwards--Gephardt and Lieberman do almost exactly the same--said Saddam is a real threat who needs to be disarmed, but quickly moved on to the President's "cowboy mentality" and diplomatic depredations: "Your family is safer in a world where people look up to America than in a world where we are hated." At this, an elderly woman named Jane Majors scribbled a sign with Magic Marker and held it above her head: BUT WAR WILL MAKE THEM HATE...
...want to tell you directly, from my own mouth, why I feel the way I do about this." And then Edwards - Gephardt and Lieberman do almost exactly the same - said Saddam is a real threat who needs to be disarmed, but quickly moved on to the President's "cowboy mentality" and diplomatic depredations: "Your family is safer in a world where people look up to America than in a world where we are hated." At this, an elderly woman named Jane Majors scribbled a sign with Magic Marker and held it above her head: BUT WAR WILL MAKE THEM HATE...
...reading your article on why Europeans want President George W. Bush to slow down before going to war with Iraq [WORLD, Feb. 3], I was struck by how much I agree with them. Bush has failed to make his point with me too. I don't care for his cowboy attitude. I hope Americans wake up, smell the coffee and decide not to re-elect him. I have two sons, one serving in the Army in Afghanistan and the other a high school senior. I am totally at a loss as to what Bush hopes to accomplish by declaring...
...edged religious determinist. Bush and I had several discussions about faith (and faith-based social programs) back when he was Governor of Texas, and he never displayed the vaguest hint of dogmatism or sense of destiny. Quite the contrary: his faith was humble and, well, soft. It softened his cowboy-preppie heart, especially when he was in the presence of poverty and despair. He used words like love and heart more than any other presidential candidate I've ever seen. It was a rudimentary form of compassion, to be sure. When suffering became an abstraction--a budget item--Bush lost...
...similar learning curve faces the celebrity executives leading some of China's top private companies. Most came of age during early capitalist reforms, when a cowboy approach made them popular--though their talents sometimes failed them outside China. Wang Licheng, 42, CEO of Holley and one of China's most celebrated executives, typifies the breed...