Word: powerfully
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Every so often, America's China policy runs smack into the fact that China and the U.S. are fundamentally different countries. China is ruled by an authoritarian regime that seeks to increase its military influence abroad. The U.S., on the other hand, is a status quo power that wants to impose its political ideals on other countries. Despite the oft-voiced desire for "partnership" between the two nations, it seems that there is little for them to agree on. While the mistaken bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was, in and of itself, a minor incident, it has removed...
...ways. Some, like Albright, develop an aggressive moralism and idealism, pledging "never again" to let the world turn a blind eye to atrocities. Others--Henry Kissinger, another refugee from the Nazis, is an example--become hardened realists with a fingertip feel for the nuances of power, a vision of how interests clash on the world stage and a disdain for what they view as sentimental impulses and ideological fervor...
...when he was dean of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service during her tenure there, wrote two weeks ago in the Wall Street Journal, "I cannot recall a time when our foreign policy was in less competent hands." The bombing of Iraq has only entrenched Saddam Hussein's power. The bombing of Serbia has likewise entrenched Milosevic and contributed to a refugee debacle. To make matters worse, these involvements have come at the expense of America's primary strategic interests: integrating Russia and China into the international system...
...each other, bypassing secretaries, which they use three or four times a day. She and Defense Secretary Cohen differ a bit ideologically--Cohen has the Pentagon's traditional caution about tossing around military might--but so far they have had no major clashes. One of her sources of power has been her odd-couple kinship with Republican Jesse Helms, the courtly but cantankerous conservative who is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But she has been either unwilling or unable (how much of each is a subject of fevered speculation) to use her bond with Helms to push through...
...wait until Day 40 to turn off the lights, especially when crippling the power grid also helps shut down the air defenses that threaten allied pilots? NATO officials say such sites--while on their target list from the war's first night--didn't win political approval until the recent NATO summit in Washington. Taking on such politically sensitive sites is fraught with peril for the allies: Belgrade ensures that the ruination caused by every misaimed bomb is televised worldwide, while the wholesale horrors wrought by Belgrade's paramilitaries in Kosovo are hidden from view. And while allied mistakes...