Word: hawkishness
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...faith in Washington right up there with a balanced budget. In Beijing, the reformists have created an equivalent consensus around the fact that China's modernization depends on dramatically expanding foreign trade and investment, which requires a good relationship with the West. And that serves to temper the more hawkish instincts of the hard-liners...
...nearly enough to build Bush's system, which could top $200 billion. Military leaders fear their planes, tanks and ships would have greater utility against future threats than a missile shield. And Powell, reflecting his military background and his new post, is cooler to missile defense than the hawkish Rumsfeld...
...takes a Republican to say no to the military. And when multiple nos and some painful amputations are the order of the day, that Republican had better have matchless hawkish credentials. And few can match either Donald Rumsfeld's hawkish stripes or his reputation as a bureaucratic brawler. Indeed, one of the more widely reprinted legends surrounding the 69-year-old Defense Secretary, who served in the same post under President Ford, alleges that Henry Kissinger once told Republican insiders that of all the despots he'd had to deal with, none was more ruthless than Donald Rumsfeld...
...hard to see why the Bush Administration asked Rumsfeld to do a second tour of duty in the job. For one thing, its hawkish Vice President may have wanted some company given that the more dovish Colin Powell had been tapped as Secretary of State. With potential policy battles looming over such sensitive issues as missile defense, Cheney may have felt he needed more support than could be offered by such comparatively lightweight Defense Secretary candidates as Dan Coats and Tom Ridge...
...Democratic Administration led by a draft-dodger was never going to persuade the generals to let go of their pet projects or the legislators to trim the military pork for the folks back in the district. The Bush Administration needed a Defense Secretary with nerves of steel and impeccable hawkish credentials to break the bad news to the military, and stare down the backlash on Capitol Hill. And Rumsfeld's combination of true-blue conservative ideological stripes and CEO managerial skills made him the dream candidate. Cheney certainly had no doubts about that - Rumsfeld had been his mentor when...