Word: diplomatic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some students said yesterday that Rabin's abilities as a leader and a diplomat transcended the political debate over the peace settlement...
...know that there is no good reason not to deal with Arafat, the international diplomat. And even if we were to have some political differences of opinion, that wouldn't preclude us from socializing with the man. Remember the principle of principles: diplomacy. When diplomacy fails, there's always more diplomacy. We must not let the nation be guided by any sort of moral compass, which of course is what Giuliani invoked, as if we were about to embark on another Crusade...
...have all been enlightened by Arafat's real politics. Terrorism works. It won't stain your permanent record. It will accord you respect for loyalty to a cause, any cause, in a world ruled by diplomatic men living in a more civilized moral vacuum. Now Yasser can be one of us. We should welcome his visit for he is a true diplomat. It seems that the Mayor mistook principle for policy. Let's not let that happen again...
...Failure was built into it by an extraordinary orgy of exaggerated expectations," argues Abba Eban, the longtime former Israeli Foreign Minister and veteran U.N. diplomat. The "messianic feeling, chiefly in the U.S.," that fueled it was captured by Hull's pronouncement, Eban believes. "It was the most ill-considered statement in the history of diplomacy, because he was saying that international organization--which after all is a mechanism, not a principle--was a panacea which would make all previous diplomacy obsolete. It turned out to be totally untrue...
Speer is a longer book than it should be. Protracted quotes from Sereny's interviews, while fascinating in their own right, lead to a wobbly, repetitive narrative that often lurches down bootless byways. A meeting with a Swedish diplomat, for example, provides Sereny with the excuse for a four-page diversion on Kurt Gerstein, the conscience-stricken SS lieutenant who tried to tell the world about death-camp gassings he had witnessed. Gerstein's saga has been told better elsewhere...