Word: discernment
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Which does not take Bush off the hook. He utterly failed to discern the line between military intervention and humanitarian aid. He could have justified rejecting the first without forgoing the second. His unconscionable silence reflected a recurring problem of his foreign policy. The White House apparently believes the public will not understand decisions taken for hard- boiled reasons of national interest; it thinks those reasons must be given a pious cloak. The U.S. launched the gulf war in part to safeguard oil supplies, in part to protect allies and punish a naked act of aggression -- all of which should...
...slow to discern Saddam's intentions, Saddam was worse at understanding the U.S. He knew little of America and drew many a false conclusion. U.S. Ambassador Glaspie told State Department colleagues how Saddam had marveled at some earthworks constructed in Iraq by Vietnamese workers. Saddam had been amazed that a Third World people could defeat a superpower and may have been emboldened by the thought. He seemed to repeatedly conclude from America's experience in the Vietnam War that the U.S. lacked will. "He thought he knew more about us than we knew about ourselves, and that was ultimately...
...Arnett slaved away in his hotel room in Baghdad, providing what was then the only--albeit censored--reports from inside Iraq, he obviously hadn't forgotten the fairer pleasures of American academia. If you look carefully at a post-war photograph printed in a recent Boston Globe, you can discern the writing on Arnett's partially-obscured sweatshirt: "Harvard and Radcliffe...
Indeed, some observers say it is hard to discern Rudenstine's accomplishments as provost from those of former Princeton President William Bowen...
...Gender Gap? When it came to the "woman factor," the patterns were just as difficult to discern. This was supposed to be the year that women candidates would pour into office in record numbers. More women were running for top posts than ever before: eight each for the U.S. Senate and governorships, 67 for the House of Representatives. With few exceptions these candidates were experienced politicians who had worked their way up through the system and established networks of support that might carry them into high office at last...