Word: hoping
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...coming months, the Obama administration will give us a better sense of what American foreign policy will look like over the next four to eight years. The president is faced with more challenges abroad than he and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton can realistically hope to resolve in one or even two terms, and several are significant enough that, alone, they could come to define American foreign policy during the Obama years. What will our troop commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan be in 2012? How much will Obama seek to engage Russia in dealing with Iran? Will increased cooperation with...
...meetings to negotiate a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, the existing global framework on climate change. Until recently, many in the international community were downbeat about the prospects of effective legislation to come out of Copenhagen. Yet clean energy figured prominently in Obama’s stimulus package, renewing hope among many that American initiative on global warming might galvanize the world’s other largest polluters to act decisively to cut down on CO2 emissions. As the industrial power of the 21st century, China recognizes that segueing into more environmentally sustainable growth is not only crucial...
...hope he fails." - on his hope for Barack Obama's presidency. The Rush Limbaugh Show...
...which refers to the implosion of Reykjavik's banks last October and the subsequent political crisis, was a wry reminder of Ireland's financial fall from grace. But one reason people laughed was they believed things in Ireland would never get that bad. (See pictures of hope in Belfast...
...Arriving in Israel during this time of political flux, Clinton could not hope to accomplish anything beyond reminding Israelis that the new Obama Administration intends to pursue the two-state peace plan between Israelis and the Palestinians. During her 36-hour stay in Israel, Clinton said that a two-state solution was "in Israel's best interests" and that it was "inescapable" and "inevitable...