Word: feckless
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...however, Weaver would stow the four-letter words and calmly ask the offending umpire, "Are you going to get any better, % or is this it?" The same question (and the identical implied answer) could be asked of Bill Clinton when it comes to the President's feeble and often feckless foreign policy. In fact, experts have been asking it for months, but "it's getting heavy now," concedes a senior Administration official. "All the polls show it. Real people are getting real nervous. The perception of ineptitude is growing. The public doesn't like foreigners' thinking the President...
...President's feckless Bosnia policy represents a sin of omission -- an unwillingness or inability to rally the world against Serbia's aggression -- then, argued Robinson, Clinton's Haiti stance reflected an even more reprehensible sin of commission. "To interdict people and then turn them back to be killed without granting them ((asylum hearings))," he said, "makes the President complicit in the killing of those people...
After two years of anguished but feckless soul searching by NATO about its proper role in the Bosnia mess, the organization's halfhearted display of military muscle in the skies over Gorazde did little to enhance its reputation. On Saturday, before the tentative agreement with the Serbs was announced, six former U.S. officials, among them former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and former Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci, blasted Bill Clinton for a "posture of moral and political abdication," and called for further NATO air action. And barely hours before Akashi released word of the accord, he issued a statement calling...
With the deadline fast approaching, Clinton has started rooting around for a way to avert meting out substantive punishment to China without blatantly ignoring his firmly sated threat. In conjunction with an equally feckless bunch of Congressional co-conspirators, Clinton has seized on the idea of "restricted sanctions" as a sufficiently deceptive device for accomplishing his duplicitous goals. China will not lose MFN status outright; nor will Clinton admit that the calculus of his government places trade relationships over human rights...
...already bitterly nostalgic for the austere virtues of the old republic. Antony represented a transition: he could live on bark and roots with his men when retreating out of the Alps before Lepidus (the old Roman virtues); and then he would anticipate the later empire by collapsing into a feckless boozehound (the new style). Anyway, Rome's embrace -- like America's now -- had grown vast and "multicultural." The republic's old purity of spirit had dissolved. Diversity overwhelmed simplicity. Quite apart from multiculturalism, if the present teeters between past vigor and future decadence, Americans right now are at their Mark...