Word: cowboy
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...dangerous charade. If the Europeans don't go along with whatever military action the U.S. takes, too bad, says the White House. "The way to win international acceptance is to win," a senior White House aide says bluntly. "That's called diplomacy: winning." That is the kind of cowboy chatter that makes U.S. allies so itchy, but some on Blair's team have grown used to Bush's bark being worse than his bite. "The great thing about the United States is that it always does the right thing in the end," deadpans a Blair adviser. "It's a little...
...Russia were also hit by the tariffs.) Even British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who never met an American President he didn't like, howled at the "unacceptable and wrong" measures. European Union trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy resorted, as Europeans so often do when the Americans baffle them, to cowboy clichés. "The world steel market is not the Wild West where everyone can do as he pleases," he said. "There are rules...
...have winced more than once upon hearing President Bush's cowboy-like rhetoric, but the phrase "axis of evil" had me sitting bolt upright in my chair, stunned, as I listened to his State of the Union speech linking Iran, Iraq and North Korea as dangerous regimes [NATION, Feb. 11]. Is Bush nuts? It's one thing to go after the Sept. 11 terrorists and their ideological kin, but I am not willing to be part of the war he seems to be envisioning. This type of inflammatory rhetoric is the kind of stuff one would expect from Third World...
...Jiang, in the marketplace for a payoff from the U.S. to symbolize the new relationship, specifically wants to slap a cowboy hat on his greased-back hair and mosey down to the Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas. The prospect has the U.S. State Department in fits. Russian leader Vladimir Putin made the trip, but only after Bush famously took measure of Putin's soul and called him a man he could trust. Yet Putin is the elected leader of a newly democratic nation. Jiang, for all his cooperation, presides over a communist country that has thousands of political prisoners. "Crawford...
...chummy note on his 55th birthday in 1997 ("Wow! That is really old," Bush wrote. "It's a good thing your wife is so young and beautiful"). But last week in Texas, Bush allies claimed Bush never fully trusted Lay, and they portrayed Lay as a classic cowboy type--all hat and no cattle--a braggart who pretended to enjoy better access to Bush than he really had. "Lay reminds me of one of those boys who shoots in the sky and claims he hit everything that falls," says Mark Stiles, a Democrat and former state legislator who was close...