Word: distrust
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...partly Kissinger's backchannel methods that made it more difficult to enforce the 1973 treaty and that created the distrust that has surrounded the MIA issue ever since. Kissinger negotiated the Vietnam Peace Accord secretly, cutting Congress and even the State Department out of the process. And on two crucial issues in the final agreement, this furtiveness bordered on deceit...
...Liberian troops moved from Sierra Leone into the northwestern parts of Liberia, occupying territory formerly controlled by Charles Taylor and his National Patriotic Front of Liberia forces. International troops from several West African nations were supposed to maintain the status quo and perpetuate a shaky cease-fire, but the distrust and hatred of Taylor, his equal lack of confidence in the neutrality of the international troops and the almost total lack of communications among the opposing forces are likely to transform this tenuous stalemate into another major...
...with spicy revelations about Nixon and Kissinger's tortured relationship: Nixon, we learn, believed Kissinger was mentally unbalanced and at one point in 1971 considered firing him, while Kissinger referred to Nixon behind his back as "our drunken friend" and the "meatball mind." Isaacson also details Kissinger's passionate distrust of even his closest aides, which led to his wiretapping them and helped lay the foundation, Isaacson argues, for the Watergate scandal. But more important, Kissinger also contains the most credible account of Nixon and Kissinger's inability to disengage from the Vietnam War and the collapse of Kissinger...
Although the ability to criticize our incumbent and potential leaders is what keeps democracy and newspapers alive, this distrust can backfire. Disillusioned voters become so habitually suspicious that they find fault with any decision a politician makes, and rush to support a candidate with no platform simply because a person who makes no promises tells no lies...
Savior politics occurs when distrust of the electoral system reaches a point where only a simple "truth teller" can put an end to the suspicion. The pervasive fear of communists in the late 1940s and early '50s bred many petty "saviors" who were going to rescue Hollywood, or the radio industry, or publishing. MacArthur and McCarthy were the supersaviors atop this pyramid of subordinate redeemers...