Word: rudderlessness
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With each administration, a few top experts with ties to the right places get on the Delta shuttle and say goodbye to academic life. On their coattails travel junior colleagues and friends, and in their wake sit rudderless graduate students with half-finished theses...
...meetings in which top advisers developed Bosnia proposals to offer Clinton were often rudderless, according to a close associate of one participant. In a break with tradition at such meetings, the lower-echelon advisers tended to pipe up freely, sometimes carrying on debates among themselves, while senior officials like Christopher offered sensible observations but were mostly silent. Defense Secretary Les Aspin was just the opposite, caroming from subject to subject, the official said. Foreign policy experts Tony Lake and Sandy Berger, meanwhile, wanted to position Clinton as a forceful leader, to set him apart from Jimmy Carter...
Indeed, the view from much of Europe is that America is slipping off the radar screen. This sense of a rudderless alliance, moreover, coincides with a tide of crises already crashing or brewing next door: the Yugoslav war, which many observers think will spread soon to Kosovo and Macedonia, and Boris Yeltsin's deepening emergency in Russia. Bush at first left the Balkan conflagration in Europe's hands; of late, Washington-led NATO has skirmished with the strictly European institutions on and off for the right to do nothing about the crisis. Overall, the Euro-American partnership seems so idle...
...seasoning, the guts to do the right thing." Clinton counters that he is the younger, forward-looking man of bold action who can set the new goals, devise the new mission the U.S. needs in the post-cold war world. Bush says Clinton is "reckless"; Clinton says Bush is "rudderless and reactive." Bush is selling himself as the custodian of American hegemony in a unipolar world, Clinton as the advocate of multinational responsibility exercised through reshaped global institutions...
...sophisticated one." His ruthlessness has always been paired with competence and superficial charm. "He will convince you that he is a most reasonable and sympathetic individual," says a U.S. analyst, and his political instincts are remarkably shrewd. His arrival as head of the Belgrade party in 1984 ended a rudderless period of creeping liberalization, when the communists needed to solidify their grip on power after the death of Tito."What I liked most about him was that his desk was always empty -- he knew how to work," says Jurij Bajec, an economist now fiercely critical of Milosevic who once worked...