Word: defeatists
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...David Cameron: Of course we need a climate-change deal that incorporates India and China and America to make real progress, but we shouldn't just wait for that and stop doing anything else and throw our hands up in despair. That is a defeatist argument. We should be setting an example to the rest of the world. We should be providing some leadership on this issue and that will make it more likely that we can encourage the Americans, Indians and Chinese and others to come in and make an agreement about this...
...House start executing a slow but steady withdrawal from Iraq. To the neocons, former Secretary of State James Baker is the archenemy, the epitome of those internationalists who have always been too willing to cut deals with shady players overseas. His commission's 79 recommendations struck the neocons as defeatist--and a condemnation of a war they had thought up in the first place. And so, re-energized by the return of Baker to prominence, they went on the offensive. "We were hearing all this talk of pulling back and pulling out and how not to lose," said a retired...
...good and honest people on the other side of the political divide, it is a shame," he said. "It is also a sign of what the Democratic Party has become in the 21st century. ... The Democratic Party has chosen to nominate for Senate a leading proponent of the isolationist, defeatist, blame-America-first philosophy...
Ever since hostilities between Israel and Hizballah ignited July 12, President Bush and his advisors have refused to consider growing international pressure to back an immediate ceasefire. They painted the word ceasefire as defeatist and short-sighted, and they coined their own term of art, "cessation of violence," to mean a future without an armed Hizballah entrenched in southern Lebanon...
...rhetoric on both sides was heated, with the Republicans calling Democrats "defeatist" and advocating a "cut and run" policy, while Democrats talked about the importance of "redeployment," rather than the more political loaded term, "withdrawal." The Democrats in both houses continue to approach the issue nervously. While Senators John Kerry and Russ Feingold pushed their colleagues to support a withdrawal of troops, others in both the Senate and House are trying to find common ground on some kind of phased withdrawal over the next year, perhaps presenting this plan over the next week...