Word: hawkishness
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...DIED. Pieter Willem "P.W." Botha, 90, hawkish South African politician who led the country during the height of the antiapartheid struggle in the 1980s; at his home in Wilderness, South Africa. As Prime Minister and then President, Botha made reforms at the edges of the apartheid system but refused to release political prisoners such as Nelson Mandela or countenance majority black rule. In 1986, with violence spiraling, he declared a state of emergency. Three years later he was forced to step down by his own party. In a recent interview, Botha said he had no regrets about...
...North Korea example may, in fact, have convinced Iran that China and Russia are unlikely to buckle to U.S. pressure for tough sanctions, and the most hawkish element in Tehran may be encouraged by a perception that North Korea's defiance has forced the U.S. to deal with nuclear arsenal as a fait accompli. Even before Pyongyang's test, Iran's position appeared to be hardening against a compromise with the Western demand for suspending enrichment. Tehran's leaders appear to believe that a deadlock in which they continue enrichment while facing limited sanctions will ultimately force the West...
...country's aggression in World War II. He also acknowledged the responsibility of Japan's wartime leaders?including his own grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi, a cabinet minister during the war who later served as Prime Minister. While parts of his conservative base publicly wondered what had happened to their hawkish prince, Abe's adjustments paved the way for his East Asian summits and offered reassurance that, unlike Koizumi, he won't let ideology get in the way of national interest. "Abe is a political realist," says Kent Calder, director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies at Johns...
...That comparison obviously looks plain silly, now, so instead we are left with Vietnam - albeit different interpretations of Vietnam. As Professor Juan Cole points out, Bush is probably relying on a hawkish view that while the Tet Offensive was a major military defeat for the Viet Cong, the spike of violence it brought may have struck a crippling political blow at the American public's will to fight the war. As Cole notes, the irony is that the upside of Tet may not be the first thing that comes to mind for Americans when their President compares Iraq to Vietnam...
Indeed, if there’s a problem identified by Ricks—a lifelong Pentagon and war correspondent who currently works at The Washington Post—it’s that the so-called hawks in the White House were never hawkish enough...