Word: lockstepping
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...understand Gibbs' lament that we Americans are losing our moral authority, but as a Vietnam veteran, I want to tell people that the real problem is the evil of war. When we follow in lockstep behind an Administration that has rained down high-tech death on thousands of innocent Iraqis while our own country faces no imminent threat, how can we think the U.S. had any moral authority to begin with? If ever we are to claim some semblance of respect, we must become champions of nonviolent conflict-resolution policies, something about which the Bush Administration seems to have...
...order to stop this exclusion, people at Harvard must stop lumping conservatives together. Conservatives don’t march in lockstep; and, we have no greater sense of ideological conformity than do our liberal brethren...
...record numbers to defeat Aznar's party. But even if the catalyst came from al-Qaeda, the election turned into a referendum on Spain's involvement in the Iraq invasion, and the result was a sharp rebuke of a government that had defied its electorate to march in lockstep with...
...stubbornly behind. That kind of "multispeed Europe" has always been anathema to those who thought Europe should be more than an "à la carte" menu that lets members do as much or little as they liked. But it may turn out that Europe's refusal to march in lockstep toward union is a good thing after all. A divided Europe is both helping the U.S. in Iraq (New Europe) and prodding the U.S. toward greater international cooperation (Old Europe). It isn't easy, but a united Europe would have an even harder time getting both things done. Even...
...seems as if just about everyone has questions these days about the missing WMD. Did U.S. intelligence officials--or their civilian bosses--overstate the evidence of weapons before the war? And if some intelligence officials expressed skepticism about WMD, who ignored them? For the past several weeks, the usually lockstep Bush Administration has done its best to maintain a unified front in the face of these queries. Whenever asked, Administration officials have replied that the weapons will turn up eventually. But as the search drags on through its third largely futile month, the blame game in Washington has gone into...