Word: hawkishness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gaggle of hawkish Senators, who quickly denounced the Russians and clamored for a cut-off of foreign aid. The tacit recognition of the ubiquity of spying, it seems, has turned into petulant indignation, while at the same time, the vigilant oversight that characterized the Cold War has collapsed into bumbling blindness...
Even so, Clinton has moved some distance toward the strong U.S. involvement that all sides believe is the key to any settlement of the war. He has not so much led as let himself be led -- by French pressure and his own more hawkish advisers. Given his months of pledges and backdowns, he has hardly prepared the country to invest in Bosnia. But a President whose discomfort with security issues is physically visible and whose foreign policy had seemed to be dominated by a fear of body bags has now placed himself and the country in a position of risk...
...talk was a report in early July from the World Health Organization, saying Sarajevo faced potential catastrophe because of shortages of food, fuel and electricity. Worried by that -- and by the political beating the Administration would take for "losing" Sarajevo -- U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher joined hawkish National Security Adviser Anthony Lake in ordering an analysis of air power to break the Serbian choke hold on the capital. That surprised many policymakers unused to seeing Christopher push the government toward the use of force in Bosnia. But the Secretary of State felt badly stung by the failure...
...different course should have been taken," he said of the President's original plan, which relies more on taxes than spending cuts to reduce the deficit. "Now, in the Senate, there will be some energy-tax reduction and spending cuts as well. I guess everyone knows I'm most hawkish on the spending-cut side." He argues that the elderly should not try to fight new cuts in Medicare and should instead wait to see the health-care plan scheduled to be unveiled in a few months. "I'd hope they would wait for that and share our concerns about...
...government professor, Cooper recalls, agreed--but admitted to being embarrassed to say so because the view was considered too "hawkish...