Word: hawkishness
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Still, Arafat continued to commit himself, at least verbally, to peace. He wept when Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli Prime Minister who signed Oslo with him, was assassinated in 1995. He beamed in 1996 when he shook hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, even though the hawkish Israeli leader had sworn earlier never to take Arafat's hand...
...reversal a week later. "We've demonstrated that we can be tough, but we need to show that we can be smart," he said. "I know that makes people anxious who want to turn Fallujah into a parking lot, but you can win the battle and lose the war." Hawkish critics immediately called the new softening a retreat. But it was only one of many examples of shifting tactics. Bush won't change his mind when the French want to avoid a war at all costs, but he is willing to change course if there's a smarter...
...whereas hawkish ideologues had hoped that the presence of tens of thousands of U.S. troops and the installation of U.S.-dependent regimes in Kabul and Baghdad would leave Iran feeling surrounded and crank up the pressure on the Mullahs in Tehran, if anything the opposite appears to have occurred. The conduct of the hard-liners - from stealing the most recent parliamentary election in broad daylight to their defiant handling of the International Atomic Energy Agency's investigation of Iran's nuclear program and their hardball negotiations with the U.S. over the fate of al-Qaeda leaders in Iranian custody - suggests...
...reportedly offered to hand them over to the U.S. or its allies for interrogation, but only in exchange for some 400 members of the Iraq-based Mujahedeen Khalq, an Iraq-based Iranian opposition guerrilla movement branded "terrorist" by both Tehran and the U.S. But the hawkish element pushing for a policy of regime-change in Washington sees the group as a valuable proxy force to use against Tehran, and opposes handing them over. And the message from the mullahs in Iran appears to be that they won't play ball unless regime-change is taken off the table...
...Vulcans--a campaign 2000 nickname for George W. Bush's hawkish national security team--went Krakatoa last week. Dick Cheney erupted on the Senate floor, deploying the F word against Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy, who had been belaboring the Vice President over the no-bid deals that Cheney's old company, Halliburton, had scored in Iraq. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz suffered a meltdown in a House Armed Services Committee hearing, blasting the press for "sitting in Baghdad" and "printing rumors." (He later apologized.) And the White House was forced to acknowledge that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had approved...