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Moreover, why does any political group that strays from bland centrist ideology—including the Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM)—immediately meet with the student body’s disdain...
...complete the job his father flubbed in the Gulf War. But lately, that reassuring example has been obscured by a blizzard of Bush words and deeds that strike many Europeans as tone-deaf or worse: lumping North Korea, Iran and Iraq in a (speechwriter-coined) "axis of evil"; the disdain for the Geneva Conventions shown in the early treatment of prisoners at Camp X-Ray; his repudiation of the Kyoto climate accords in favor of voluntary compliance by U.S. industry; a refusal to lean on Israel, or even to engage deeply in the peace process, for six months as violence...
...unwelcome squatters, including several commanders loyal to the Defense Minister. Karzai wants them out. But he can't be too pushy. Despite their dubious allegiance, these men happen to head his security, and the slouching guards at the massive stone gates regard Karzai's visitors with open suspicion and disdain. Karzai wants them replaced, and the Americans are hastily training bodyguards for him. But for now, Western diplomats--and even his staff--are worried that Karzai is vulnerable to assassination. "Why shouldn't I feel safe?" he counters. As he speaks, some of his young staff members eye one another...
...little growling from the DMZ guard tower. After peering through binoculars at the North Korean Peace Museum that displays axes used to kill two American servicemen, he yelled: "no wonder I think they're evil." In public and private, it has also become clear that Bush has a swelling disdain for European officials, relegating the pesky nit-pickers to the itchy class in which he has banished university elites, journalists and blow-hard members of Congress. He echoed Colin Powell's quip that the French foreign minister suffered an attack of the vapors when he suggested the "axis of evil...
Once again, President George W. Bush and his administration have demonstrated an unsettling disdain for transparency in government. Thousands of documents from Bush’s tenure as Governor of Texas are locked up at George H. W. Bush’s presidential library, out of the public’s reach...