Word: hawkishly
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...Japan and China can't see eye to eye on how to deal with the North. China, together with South Korea, favors compromise, conciliation and economic aid, hoping that such largesse will persuade Pyongyang to give up its nukes. Japan sides with the U.S. in calling for a more hawkish engagement with the North, one that contemplates referring the issue to the U.N. Security Council?a step that could result in economic sanctions being imposed on Pyongyang...
...while 28% think their economic situation has deteriorated. Concern over the swollen federal deficit and U.S. economic health continue to rank first and second among problems facing the country, well ahead of the arms race and the threat of nuclear war. Yet, despite their reservations about the President's hawkish summit stance, many voters claim they feel more comfortable after five years of Reagan's defense and foreign policies. Only 16% consider themselves in greater danger militarily because of Reagan's policies, while a full 36% believe they are safer. Perceptions of the legacy from Geneva will doubtless affect those...
...years before the U.S. entered World War I, the hawkish Archie already had begun conducting military drills in Harvard Yard—much to the chagrin of then-University President A. Lawrence Lowell, who hoped that the country could stay out of the conflict. TR feared that his son might be expelled, but “Lowell, besieged by alumni with a Rooseveltian view of preparedness, backed down...
...Reality in Iraq Columnist Joe Klein's "The End of Rose-Petal Fantasies" suggested that hawkish neoconservatives may be losing their influence on the Bush Administration's policies in Iraq and elsewhere [Feb. 7]. Klein says Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who were "complicit in rose-petal scenarios" for Iraq, may now be less susceptible to fantasies. The only fantasy I can see is Klein's in thinking that what has happened in Iraq has been a failure. Iraq is far from a lost cause, as was proved when Iraqis in all walks of life braved...
...quietly working to alleviate human suffering in impoverished communities across the country. They will be what saves evangelical Christianity from its demise as a significant religious movement. (The Rev.) Jeff Carr Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. Reality in Iraq Columnist Joe Klein's "The End Of Rose-Petal Fantasies" suggested that hawkish neoconservatives may be losing their influence on the Bush Administration's policies in Iraq and elsewhere [Feb. 7]. Klein says Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who were "complicit in rose-petal scenarios" for Iraq, may now be less susceptible to fantasies. The only fantasy...