Word: hawkishness
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...There is wide speculation that Putin's idea of "immediate measures" will be to build up its forces in border areas now that it is free of the CFE treaty. Last month, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, who increasingly positions himself as Putin's hawkish potential successor, said that Russia would deploy its newly tested Iskander-M cruise missiles in is westernmost Kaliningradsky region, wedged among Poland, Lithuania and Belarus, unless the U.S. scraps its defense shield bases in Poland and the Czech Republic. Ivanov's threats only infuriated Poland and made Lithuania consider asking the U.S. for deploying...
...handpicked defense chief, by July 3 it was clear Kyuma had to go. "I told Prime Minister Abe I would take responsibility and resign," Kyuma said to reporters Tuesday afternoon. "I truly apologize for having troubled and caused worry to the people of Nagasaki." Abe replaced Kyuma with the hawkish national security adviser Yuriko Koike, who becomes Japan's first-ever female Defense Minister...
...William Kristol's "The 2008 Formula": His quoting statistics from previous elections will not make good his bet on a hawkish Republican a winner in 2008 [May 14]. Kristol astutely points out that the next election will be an election of change and focused on the war, but he failed to connect the two. The next election will be a "change the war" election. If Republicans are to gain four more years in the White House, they will have to break completely with Bush on the war and foreign policy. If they don't I would be happy...
...could say, 1952 and 1968 show that war elections can also be change elections, if the wars aren't going well. So that's even better for the Democrats in 2008. Perhaps. But notice that in all four of the war elections, the more hawkish or more hawkish-seeming candidate won. In the three war elections since World War II, the Republican won (Ike, Nixon, Bush). And in the two war elections with no incumbent candidate (1952 and 1968), the winner, who came from the opposition party, had reassuring experience in dealing with wartime situations (Ike) or at least foreign...
...which will dominate: War or change? My sense is that war trumps everything. And so, despite the Bush Administration's problems, if I had to bet, I would put my money (nervously) on a hawkish Republican over a dovish Democrat...