Word: hawkishness
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...couple of years ago, Prime Minister Erdogan’s wife was banned from public events because she wore headscarves. In a “Modern Republic,” prosecution of the Armenian genocide perpetrators was abruptly discontinued. In a “democracy,” hawkish military coups intervened thrice in less than 50 years every time constituents voted against laiklik (Kemal’s policies of absolute secularism), each time proclaiming the creation of a “guided democracy.” It’s no wonder, then, that an increasing number of people...
...disappointed that the Gulf War had not removed Saddam Hussein from power, Libby and Wolfowitz drafted a paper that broached a policy of pre-emptive action. That paper foreshadowed Libby's hawkish position on Iraq a decade later. After George W. Bush's election in 2000, Cheney tapped the like-minded Libby to be his right-hand man. In the months before the Iraq war, Libby, Cheney and Wolfowitz formed the core of an influential group of neoconservatives that pushed President Bush to remove Saddam Hussein from office. Their ideas and their respect were-and are-mutual...
McCain has rejected that kind of politics throughout his career. Although unwaveringly hawkish on an unpopular war and firmly on the right about social matters like abortion, he also has a penchant for taking on issues like campaign-finance reform that discomfort the faithful in both parties and often just his own. Whereas many Republicans refuse to acknowledge that global warming even exists, it has become something of an obsession with him. The immigration-reform bill he introduced last month would beef up border security but give undocumented aliens a path to legalization, which many on the right oppose. Says...
...Ahmedinajad won the loyalty of the basij, and the voters who responded to their campaigning, by promising to relieve the grinding poverty that remains the lot of the majority a quarter-century after the Islamic Revolution. Piety and a hawkish foreign policy might be enough to retain Rahimi's support, but for most of his basij brothers, the new President may be judged on whether he is able to make their lives more like Rahimi...
...Temporarily, at least, the announcement should also placate hawkish politicians in the U.S. and Europe who were lobbying for protectionist measures to stem the tide of Chinese imports. Legislation in the U.S. that would have imposed a 27.5% tariff on all Chinese imports if Beijing didn't revalue?a measure that received an unexpected level of support in the Senate earlier this year?now appears to be going nowhere. Also easing anti-Chinese sentiment in the U.S. were setbacks last week to two attempted acquisitions of U.S. firms by Chinese companies. Mainland appliance maker Haier dropped its $1.28 billion offer...