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...They didn't want to tell us anything, is the impression I got," Tabak agreed. "They didn't seem too interested in discussing with us what criteria they're using, or how students could help in the procedure, or who they're going to choose, for that matter...
Tabak said the undergraduate delegation offered criteria for their ideal president. They called for "a president who would be a full-time president and would be willing to spend time working with students and faculty and not on the board of directors of a corporation...
...Morton Kondracke recently pointed out, 1988 ABC News exit polls showed Bush ahead 88 percent to 12 percent among voters who regarded foreign policy and defense as their most important criteria (compared to a mere 5 percent margin on economic issues). Bush's thus-far stellar performance in the Gulf Crisis will only perpetuate this imbalance...
Bush's words were a direct response to the unusually widespread criticism of the war in American religious circles. The Roman Catholic hierarchy has questioned whether the U.S.-led military action meets the traditional just-war criteria. The war has been branded "morally indefensible" by officials of Eastern Orthodox and mainline Protestant groups affiliated with the National Council of Churches, including Edmond Browning, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Bush's denomination...
Bush's clerical critics find little to dispute in many of the just-war criteria. Questions about whether "competent authority" endorsed the gulf campaign died out once Congress had voted its support. The moral opposition revolves around two classical yardsticks. "We believe that ((the use of)) offensive force in this situation would likely violate the principles of last resort and proportionality," stated the President of the U.S. Catholic hierarchy, Cincinnati's Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk, as the Jan. 15 deadline for Iraq's withdrawal passed...