Word: hawkishly
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...government professor, Cooper recalls, agreed--but admitted to being embarrassed to say so because the view was considered too "hawkish...
Isaacson faults the two men, however, for their indifference to "the moral values that are the true source of ((America's)) global influence." He reveals how Nixon extended the Vietnam War for six months solely because he believed a "hawkish image" would benefit his 1972 election campaign, and he portrays Kissinger as having acquired a coroner's callousness toward the victims of geopolitics. According to Isaacson, Kissinger told Gerald Ford's press secretary on the eve of Saigon's fall in 1975, "Why don't these people die fast? The worst thing that could happen is for them to linger...
Rabin promises to slow the growth of settlements, to increase the pace of peace talks with the Palestinians and to repair the damage Shamir's hawkish policies did to relations with the U.S. -- all easier said than done. Rabin also pledges to rearrange the nation's priorities, to focus on domestic problems rather than foreign policy issues. This emphasis on internal matters, though popular, is ironic. When Rabin was Prime Minister from 1974 to 1977, he was notorious for doing the opposite. (See related story on page...
...sleeping with the godfather's mistress, for God's sake; his minions used Chicago mobsters as hit men against a rival head of state. He was enmeshed in sordid blackmail intrigues with Hoover; he was implicated in bugging King's bedrooms. Far from a noble peacemaker, he was a hawkish enthusiast for dirty tricks and covert ops, so Machiavellian that -- according to Michael Beschloss's new book, The Crisis Years -- he may even have given his blessing to Khrushchev's building of the Berlin Wall. In retrospect, J.F.K. resembles Marrs' Galahad less than a gang leader like The Godfather...
That goodwill might be enough to make Israeli public opinion, which Hoffmann called "fairly hawkish," change. But Hoffmann said he could see little evidence for that...