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...original cold warrior, he believed in countering the Soviet Union with military strength, although he may be best remembered for his 1982 attempt at conciliation, when he invited his Soviet counterpart to take a walk near Geneva in an effort to break a deadlock over another arms agreement. The ploy failed?it was later the subject of the play A Walk in the Woods?but it began a push toward arms control, and Nitze later helped craft a treaty between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. Although a godfather of the neoconservative movement, Nitze had become in recent months a critic...
...lesson: Strength builds peace. Weakness invites those who would do us harm.” Mixing images of Middle America with threats of imminent terrorist attacks if Kerry is elected—on account of his enigmatic “weakness”—is a detestable ploy to get voters to vote simply out of fear...
...family to settlers who voluntarily leave the Gaza Strip and West Bank as part of the planned pullout next year. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon rejected a call by Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the "disengagement" policy to be put to a referendum, arguing that it was a ploy to delay its implementation...
...truth is Bush’s vague domestic policy agenda is the biggest fraud on the American public since Richard Nixon campaigned on a secret plan to end the Vietnam War. This latest vacuous ploy makes previous Bush policy announcements pale in comparison. While we’ve come to expect our president to disingenuously pander leftward while lurching ever farther right—think outdoorsy photo-ops for the ill-named Healthy Forest Initiative, which opened up 20 million acres of National Forests to logging and made them more susceptible to fires—this time the Republicans aren?...
...become known as the "small-target" strategy, had worked before. It is identical to the one that Howard employed in 1996 to win office. But after almost six years, voters did not know what alternative leader Beazley stood for. Latham once vowed never to adopt such a negative ploy. Yet, here he is, with under 40 days to articulate and sell an integrated platform to a public that is, at best, merely curious about him and his party. Winning the campaign skirmishes and crafting clever attack lines will not be enough to unseat the incumbent or shift the electorate...