Word: hawkishness
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...last Saturday, a clearly piqued President Bush called a halt to the torrent of Republican complaints, and said he'd make up his own mind based on "the latest intelligence." The intelligence, according to the more hawkish elements, points to a dangerous link between Saddam and al Qaeda. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld has suggested that leaders of Bin Laden's group may be hiding out in Iraq. But other officials specified that intelligence had found that "second-tier" al-Qaeda leaders had joined up with an Islamist militia in the Kurdish-controlled north of Iraq, beyond Baghdad's direct control - although...
...activities and things, some of which ... we agree with and some that we may not." He also pointed out that the Defense Policy Board is not an official body - true, but it is a policy advisory group appointed by the Defense Secretary himself, and is visibly influential among hawkish civilians in the defense establishment. Despite being disowned by the Pentagon, the briefing raised hackles in Arab capitals, and the Saudis reiterated their firm rejection of a war on Iraq...
...longstanding idea of Gaza as a test-bed for truces and peace agreements suggests that the dovish faction of the Israeli government (Ben-Eliezer heads the Labor Party) is signaling its desire to renew some form of peace process with the Palestinian Authority - notwithstanding the reservations of the hawkish faction of the Bush administration, which in the person of Defense Secretary Rumsfeld on Tuesday warned against any dealings with the PA, let alone restoring its control over territory...
...decisions on Iraq, others are plunging ahead with the debate. Delaware Democrat Joseph Biden held two days of hearings last week in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in search of answers about the urgency of the Iraqi threat and what kind of action is needed. Biden is moderately hawkish on the issue and has signaled to Bush that he will back him against Saddam if the conditions are right. The Senator wants to make sure Bush consults with Congress and gets a formal go-ahead before the jets scramble-just as Bush's father did for Gulf...
Person of the Week As a voice of moderation in foreign policy, he has lately seemed the odd man out in the hawkish Bush administration. But after gaining a bit of rapprochement with "axis of evil" member North Korea and scoring $50 million in anti-terror aid for Indonesia at last week's asean meeting, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell regains credibility...