Word: restraint
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...point out some atrocious policies and human rights violations that Israel has and continues to conduct. Indeed if Israel has no regard for the human rights of its neighbors, the spiral of violence, the constant reproduction of vengeance for lost lives on both sides, will never end. Only with restraint and cooperation, from both sides, can there be peace, and that was precisely the final message of Finkelstein’s talk...
...shoes, and coffee, and our national wealth was used to protect our national security. Likewise, Bill Clinton, who asked in his first inaugural for us to choose sacrifice not “for its own sake, but for our own sake,” saw the necessity of restraint in federal spending, allowing our nation to prosper while cutting the budget deficit...
With Washington divided over Bush’s proposed troop “surge” in Iraq, the concept of sacrifice has resurfaced in American politics, but this time in a mutilated and parasitic form. Defying his predecessors, who demanded restraint and sacrifice from the country as a whole, the president has again chosen to place the entirety of the burden on a small segment of the public—the 130,000 American families, which will now become 20,000 more, with sons and daughters deployed in Iraq. Bush has ironically come to the same conclusion...
...nation's top priority, and the issue has become the central theme of the presidential election campaign, with candidates on both left and right making a range of expensive promises to boost income for the middle class and the less well-off alike. After several years of wage restraint, unions in Germany, the Netherlands and elsewhere are pushing for substantial hikes this year. Now that the economy is doing better again, Dutch workers "think it's their time to get something back," says Marco van Moort, spokesman for the biggest Dutch union, Bondgenoten FNV. Builders in the Netherlands recently negotiated...
Rice's new restraint reflects a broader reworking of the democracy agenda that dominated U.S. foreign policy after 9/11. Two factors have contributed to that change. The first is the reality that free elections in places like Lebanon and the Palestinian territories have handed power to fundamentalist groups like Hizballah and Hamas that have little interest in pluralistic, secular governance. Whatever the ultimate benefits of implanting democracy in the Middle East, in the short run it's more likely to damage U.S. interests than serve them...