Word: sentimentals
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Walt and Mearsheimer, a professor of political science at the University of Chicago, argue in their paper that “unquestioned support” for Israel does not serve U.S. strategic objectives and fosters anti-American sentiment in the Arab world and beyond. The paper was posted on the Kennedy School’s website last month, and an abridged version of it was published in the London Review of Books...
...Rising disenchantment with the Iraq war, especially in Prime Minister Tony Blair's ruling Labour Party, is only one cause of recent strains in the U.S. British relations. The political firestorm in Congress over the Dubai ports deal, and the protectionist sentiment that seemed to drive it, has alienated otherwise friendly conservative members of Britain's business class. Congress's continuing refusal to pass a bilateral extradition treaty that the British approved three years ago hasn't helped matters, since it makes it easier for the U.S. to extradite white collar criminals from the U.K. than vice versa. Adding insult...
...workforce are illegal immigrants and that industry needs 300,000 to 500,000 new workers a year in order to cover for retiring baby boomers. But with anti-immigration activists like Sensenbrenner getting the drop on business last year, it was not easy to turn the tide. Public sentiment seemed to be largely behind the Sensenbrenner agenda, so the lobbyists focused their efforts on quietly lining up Judiciary Committee Republicans and ensuring a bill would get a vote on the floor of the Senate. Allies in the religious community and among immigrant rights groups helped organize the massive rallies over...
...That?s the kind of sentiment that makes black people outwardly enraged - while inwardly we cringe about the very real harm it has on our community. Members of every minority group, after all, are fully aware of how the greater society views them. But it's not just that they are personally offended by such bigotry - it's also pragmatism. The way you are perceived-by parents, teachers and, yes, random strangers-affects the person you become and how far you go in life...
...many Afghans, the ?favorable resolution? would be Rahman?s execution. It?s not only the country?s conservative clergy that is calling for his death. "He has brought shame on the name of Afghanistan and deserves to die," said Daud Massoud, 37, a taxi driver in Kabul. That sentiment resonates strongest in the country?s deeply conservative south and east, over which Kabul exercises little control. These are also the areas where the Taliban is making a comeback and top Al-Qaeda commanders are believed to be hiding...