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...happy warrior. He said he could support the war only if the U.S. exhausted all diplomatic efforts--and then supported the war anyway when Bush abandoned the diplomatic process. Kerry has continued to criticize the Bush Administration's clumsy, arrogant behavior in the world, its myopic willingness to offend friend and foe alike. He believes that the Administration's intention to go it alone on the reconstruction of Iraq is a mistake as well. These are not startling criticisms. They are common among both Democrats and Republican traditionalists. The members of Bush the Elder's foreign policy team have expressed...
...pedestrian application of Shrum's art that has created a generation of strait-jacketed Democrats who think small, who sound as if they were animatronic, who are willing to bend themselves into pretzels for the love of frenzied, myopic special interests, who think that smart politics means complaining about the cost of Bush's trip to the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln rather than finding some alternative and more inspirational way to capture the public's attention. If the Democrats want to transcend their perpetual pickiness, their inability to rise above the bite-size, they are going to have to find...
...Your faithful crystal-ball gazer was even more myopic. I ran a humiliating three for 11 in major categories as I picked them on the day of the nominations - no, please don't look. I even lost an impromptu bet, as the evening began, on how long Martin would wait on this pained occasion before cracking a joke. Correct answer: about 15 seconds. "I am really glad they cut back on the glitz," the he said, glancing back at the lavish stage set. "That'll send 'em a message...
Western observers have failed to understand Hussein because they have mistaken him for a self-interested thug rather than a zealous ideological missionary. Our academics are blinded by a stubborn and myopic secularism that overlooks the vast global political influence of religion, culture and ideology...
Your editorial (“Title IX Complaint Questionable,” Sept. 18) exhibits myopic and wishful thinking divorced from “real world” experience. My 35 years in criminal defense and civil liberties litigation give me a very different perspective...