Word: kissingerian
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...moralizing approach of the neoconservatives who dominated Bush's War Cabinet in the first term. Her push for pragmatism has rubbed off on hawks like Vice President Dick Cheney, the primary intellectual force behind Bush's post-9/11 policies. "There's a move, even by Cheney, toward the Kissingerian approach of focusing entirely on vital interests," says a presidential adviser. "It's a more focused foreign policy that is driven by realism and less by ideology...
...Loyalist Nobody successfully serves as many masters as Cheney has without a disciplined code of loyalty. With his conservative instincts, he was an unnatural fit in the relatively moderate fOrd Administration. He was suspicious of Kissingerian detente, for example, preferring Reagan's muscular anticommunism, but he buried his own politics in service to the President. In the 1976 primary, he faithfully leaned on Republicans in Wyoming, which was fast becoming Reagan country, to stick with Ford, even if most of the delegation went against...
...book is divided into seven chapters that deal with, in order, America’s role in the world, Europe, the Western Hemisphere, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, globalization and the enforcement of human rights. It is the typical Kissingerian approach, dividing the world up into neat geopolitical spheres each suitable to a policy of Realpolitik...
...still get lost or fall into a swamp or an ambush. As Bush felt his way through these past two years, he may have been better off with his natural aptitude for reassuring people and his preference for restraining them than he would have been with a Kissingerian or Brzezinskian grand design...
...future is grim. The United States will sell more than $20 billion in weapons to countries in the Middle East this year. One should not be surprised if some end up in Saddam Hussein's hands. The Kissingerian logic which has guided Bush's policy prescribes "striving for an equilibrium between Iraq, Iran, Syria and other regional powers." With reports that Syria has already spent more than one billion coalition dollars on guns, the Iraqi side of the equation may need some shoring up. This Realpolitik would approach farce--if there were not dead bodies everywhere...