Word: hawkishness
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...Ram?rez, widely recognized as one of OPEC's most hawkish, and hard-working, energy ministers, insists Americans are committing "a gross simplification" if they want to blame Ch?vez for $3-a-gallon gasoline this summer. "Consumers, especially Americans, have to start taking their share of responsibility for this situation," says Ram?rez, whose country is the U.S.'s fourth-largest foreign crude supplier. "The U.S.'s reckless oil consumption is turning into its own suicide. The Americans have a lot of work ahead of them with regard to energy policy." At the same time, he adds, "Americans should remember that when...
...candidates may change, but Israeli elections follow a golden rule. Nobody ever wins a majority in the 120-seat Knesset - which often makes for strange alliances, especially amongst the more hawkish, conservative Likud party, more dovish and liberal Labor party and a whole slew of other smaller factions. Judging from the polls, this will hold true in next Tuesday's elections, in which the front-running, self-described centrist Kadima party, headed by acting prime minister Ehud Olmert, is expected to garner less than 40 seats. Kadima will need partners, and increasingly, it looks like one of those may well...
...under Saddam Hussein.Yet once again the halls of Washington ring with calls for “regime change,” this time in Iran. On March 7, Vice President Dick Cheney threatened ominously that “all options [are] on the table.” The hawkish U.S. Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, warned of “tangible and painful consequences” for Iran and lobbied the use of “all available means to stop the threat of the Iranian regime.” Last week, President Bush reaffirmed his disastrous doctrine...
...Beijing, the perception in ruling circles is that the U.S. seeks to curb and restrict its emergence as a major geopolitical power commensurate with its ever-growing economic clout. Chinese officials don't have to look far for evidence, as hawkish elements in Washington haven't been hiding their view of China as an emerging threat. Last January, in the wake of the tsunami, the Bush administration initially moved to circumvent the U.N. to deliver aid by instead partnering with Japan, Australia and India. More recently, Secretary Rice's comments in Australia that "all of us in the region, particularly...
...what will happen next at the Security Council? The Bush Administration remains committed to the pursuit of a diplomatic solution, even if its more hawkish element believes diplomacy is bound to fail but remains necessary solely to prove the need for a more confrontational approach. Many of the countries that have backed Washington's diplomatic efforts on Iran's nuclear program oppose both regime change and economic sanctions. China wants a brief statement of concern from the Security Council before sending the matter back to the IAEA and giving more time for Russia to negotiate a compromise; Russian Foreign Minister...