Word: hawkishness
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...welfare-reforming, free-trading New Democratic Party. And both seem slightly irrelevant so far. Both are solid citizens, but older, less hip than their competitors; neither seems comfortable being ushered to the stage with rock music. Neither lights any fires on the stump. They are probably the two most hawkish Democrats in the race. These are not advantages with party activists at the moment...
...deeper frustration: Bush seems to have been blindsided by the institutional entropy of the U.N.--and the chronic grandstanding of the French and Germans. (It was being whispered last week that he blamed his Secretary of State for the mess, which may help account for Colin Powell's own hawkish pique.) It is true that Bush's bluntness forced the U.N. to act last fall--and true too that "Old Europe," to coin a phrase, seems far more comfortable with a toothless League of Nations-style operation than with decisive action of any sort. But Bush--and his divided Administration...
...struggling economy is overly simplistic and a thinly veiled ploy at satisfying his rich political base. And while Bush did promise funding for some praiseworthy and innovative programs that Democrats will be happy to support, these programs only served to distract eyes and minds away from his hawkish and conservative political agenda...
...relative term: Sharon's Likud Party is expected to win some 30 seats, as against Labor's 19. That will leave him forced to choose between a range of coalition options. A "National Unity" government comprising the opposite ideological poles of the dovish Labor Party and the hawkish Likud has traditionally been a temporary solution to immediate crises confronting the embattled Jewish State, and the endemic security crisis in the West Bank and Gaza has made it, increasingly, the default setting of Israeli politics. Sharon headed up a unity government until Labor bolted in search of an independent identity shortly...
...after the Jan. 28 elections. Labor leader Amram Mitzna said he could not serve under a Prime Minister so tainted by corruption, a reference to vote buying and illegal funding scandals. If he is unable to build a majority coalition with Labor, Sharon will be forced to ally with hawkish nationalist and religious parties that adamantly oppose a Palestinian state...