Word: disdainful
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...reformist candidates that hard-liners had rigged it. Time's interview with Ahmadinejad, in which he revealed his supposedly peaceful intentions, sounded hauntingly like the polite conferences European and American diplomats had with Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. While Ahmadinejad is a bit more forthright than Hitler about his disdain for Jews, declaring that Israel should be "wiped away" and the Holocaust is a "myth," Neville Chamberlain would have probably found him trustworthy. Fred S. Carr Jr. Virginia Beach, Virginia, U.S. The West may depict Ahmadinejad as dangerous and anti-Semitic, but his interview showed rather a different side...
...reformist candidates that hard-liners had rigged it. TIME'S interview with Ahmadinejad, in which he revealed his supposedly peaceful intentions, sounded hauntingly like the polite conferences European and American diplomats had with Adolf Hitler in the 1930s. While Ahmadinejad is a bit more forthright than Hitler about his disdain for Jews, declaring that Israel should be "wiped away" and the Holocaust is a "myth," Neville Chamberlain would have probably found him trustworthy...
...basic strategy for winning a generational struggle. "Even though we agree that Islamic radicalism is a common threat," says a British official, "most of the world thinks the U.S. is making it worse." Aspects of that sentiment are widely shared. Von Rimscha says "American unilateralism, militarism and disdain for international law do not even have to be argued anymore. They are firmly believed, they have become part of an entrenched canon of anti-Americanism." Other experts doubt things are that bad, but elements of this canon are migrating into the mainstream and constraining the running room of politicians all over...
...opponents, such tactics mask an ideological emptiness that will show up sooner or later. "Technique doesn't replace politics. There have to be ideas, convictions, a discussion of the stakes," says former Prime Minister and two-time presidential candidate Lionel Jospin, whose disdain for Royal's approach led him to challenge her for the party nomination. (He withdrew from the race last week, removing a major hurdle for Royal.) An adviser to Strauss-Kahn issues a similar criticism: "What the polls measure is popularity, not competence. Socialists have a furious love of debate, and she's not debating. What does...
...discredited now himself. Cabinet post in a McCain Administration; failing that, he can always write his tell-all memoirs. Robert Novak Conservative pundit known as the Prince of Darkness; assumed (wrongly) by liberals to be Bush lackey. Always a war skeptic; complained that Armitage treated him "with disdain" in years before the leak. Will write must-read (in Washington) columns until they pry his keyboard from his cold, dead hands. "Scooter" Libby Cheney's Cheney; sly neo-con breakfast confidant of reporter Judy Miller; the only one indicted in the affair. Charged with lying about his chat with Tim Russert...