Word: realisms
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...youthful candidate who wanted to be taken seriously despite his inexperience in foreign affairs, he struck a tough-guy pose, compensating for shallow knowledge by adopting the combative tone of a cold warrior. Guided by advisers steeped in anticommunism, Candidate Bush sought to contrast his hard-eyed "realism" with a Clinton-Gore idealism that he called bereft of core principles and dominated by a misguided desire to insert Washington into global peacemaking. The easiest way to mark the distinction was to talk up Russia and China as nations with nukes that threatened American interests; Bush would treat them...
...hard to tell. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer used "realism" a dozen times last week to explain, defend and justify the Administration's rhetoric: "The message the President is sending is that his foreign policy is going to be based on reality." Oh? That word is a handy portmanteau for just about any policy the Administration might adopt, but it doesn't clarify a thing. So let's take a little tour d'horizon, as the diplomats say, through the issues that are raising red flags...
...Lebanon have stopped dreaming of going home. "With Sharon, we can never hope for anything good," says Mohammed Safad, 59, working a cigarette cart at the entrance to Sabra. "He will never let us return. He only says no, no, no." That seems to be the kind of realism Israel's new Prime Minister is aiming to instill in Israel's standoff with the Palestinians. But as the uncertainties in Lebanon suggest, it may not be enough to bring peace to the Middle East...
...looking for understanding from Washington, for some breathing space to implement a new policy for managing the Israeli-Palestinian relationship. He's proposing a step-by-step de-escalation from the present level of confrontation, pushing a message of realism to which the Bush administration is very receptive...
...firm life--are expertly woven together and make for a fast-paced and involving story that is difficult to put down. The references to Harvard life are interesting, well thought-out and believable, while Gutman's own experiences as an associate at the law firm Cravath add to the realism that she infuses into her book...