Word: selfishness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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While both stances are consistent with Kissinger’s brand of realism, intended to prioritize peace over justice, Hitchens sees more selfish motivations...
...Even here in England, our closest allies feel that America often acts like a selfish child. Americans never gave due credit to the Russians, British and others without whom the Allies could never have won two World Wars, they say. Now America is reluctant to put its soldiers under any other nation’s command, in NATO or in the UN—though of course the U.S. is quick to demand control of other nations’ forces...
...arrogantly believe that we can never fall from our superpower position, that will only hasten the inevitable. And when America turns to other nations for help, they will be unlikely to show much sympathy if they only remember a selfish, self-aggrandizing nation...
...proposals floated by the Clinton administration for trading emissions-rights and so on. But the question will be to what extent is Bush willing to back away from his vow that in addressing global warming nothing can be done to harm the U.S. economy. That struck people here as selfish and self-serving, but also wrongheaded - the Europeans believe that while taking steps towards cleaner and more efficient energy consumption may be more expensive in the short run, they'll result in long-term savings and will ultimately become essential...
...Whereas great shows spring on the public something it never would have asked for: a sitcom making fun of the Korean War (M*A*S*H), a show about a Cuban band leader and his wife in the white-bread '50s (I Love Lucy) or a farce about the selfish exploits of four whiny New Yorkers (Seinfeld...