Word: realpolitiker
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...this and went blithely into the quagmire-"a war," writes Halberstam, "which no one wanted, but which the rhetoric seemed to necessitate." Not only the rhetoric of ritualistic anti-Communism but the rhetoric of machismo: the compensatory swagger of the liberal, the intellectual, to demonstrate he was a Realpolitik he-man by the American code. Here Halberstam simplifies in his zeal to give history a firm story line. He is more thoroughly convincing when he depicts what might be called the debacle of drift...
With Lucas oiling up the electoral machine, McKay takes his primary contest handily. In the election he gets so caught up in the fever of the campaign and the persuasiveness of Lucas' tutorials in Realpolitik that he begins gaining points on Jarmon by compromising his principles. At the outset of the campaign, when reporters ask "What about property taxes?" he replies, "I don't know." Later he has learned to refer questioners to complex, five-point position papers prepared by his staff, and to give cagey, vague answers during televised debates...
...parrots and bejeweled objects that envoys dragged into the foreign potentate's throne room as diplomatic lubricant. Over the centuries, gift became ritualized into loan. A cultural-exchange program has been part of U.S.-Soviet affairs for the past 13 years now, and whatever its actual effects on Realpolitik may be, the process is a harmless and edifying one. The latest manifestation of it is a huge compendium called "Soviet Union: Arts and Crafts in Ancient Times and Today," which opened last month at Washington's Corcoran Gallery. It is the largest collection of artifacts and craft objects...
Americans who feel that foreign aid should be not only an instrument of Realpolitik but of moral judgment have two difficult cases to worry about. One is Greece, where in 1967 a clique of colonels overthrew a shaky but democratic and legally elected regime. After delivering some lectures and pressing for the restoration of democratic institutions, last September the U.S. lifted an embargo on deliveries of heavy military equipment to the Greek junta. An even more painful dilemma for the conscientious concerns Pakistan. In March the government there launched savage warfare against the East Pakistanis, who were seeking greater autonomy...
Dumont's neglect of realpolitik as a factor in decision-making leads the reader to believe that blind whim and guerrilla zeal govern Casaros administration. Dumont should have realized that many apparently irrational economic decisions can be understood by other, especially political, criteria: most notably the naive goal-setting which produced last year's sugar harvest fiasco...