Word: resistance
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...policy, have provided France with an opportunity for the ultimate grand stroke - an attempt to actually break the American monopoly of power in the world. This is geopolitics at the highest level, and the French, who have been banished from the game for a good half-century, cannot resist the lure of playing it again...
...harangue that would make a person ashamed even for agreeing with it. By starting off his screed by attacking the legitimacy of George W. Bush's election, he committed the same mistake as too many leaders of the antiwar movement, such as the leaders of ANSWER: he couldn't resist the temptation to lump his antiwar stance in with the rest of his portfolio of grievances. As a result, he made a speech guaranteed to alienate even many people who are also against...
...policy, have provided France with an opportunity for the ultimate grand stroke--an attempt to actually break the American monopoly of power in the world. This is geopolitics at the highest level, and the French, who have been banished from the game for a good half-century, cannot resist the lure of playing it again...
...Council resolution to authorize a new civil administration in Iraq. But France and others who have opposed the war have expressed opposition to the idea of retrospectively sanctioning regime change - UN Secretary General Kofi Annan even questioned the legality of the war - and France has given notice it will resist any move to transfer de facto political authority in Baghdad to Britain...
...shock-and-awe" air campaign that U.S. commanders had held off on for the past 48 hours. Like the attempted "decapitation" strike that targeted Saddam and the multi-layered propaganda effort that followed, the latest bombardment of Saddam's power centers is to destroy the enemy's will to resist (and capacity to communicate), rather than to physically eliminate his fighting forces...