Word: shrills
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...energy aid, as well as some form of written guarantee that the U.S. will respect the country's sovereignty and security. The North Korean response was decidedly snotty (it described President Bush's offer as a "deceptive drama to mislead world opinion") but analysts interpret the remarks as typically shrill North Korean bargaining. Pyongyang will try and hold out for a formal non-aggression pact, while the Bush Administration will likely offer some lesser form of written security guarantee. But the nuclear brinkmanship appears designed primarily as a negotiating tactic to pressure the U.S. and its allies into new concessions...
...most likely target for those future attacks is now unquestionably Jakarta's much diminished expatriate community, which has been alarmed by a series of increasingly shrill warnings from Western embassies about the impending threat. An ever-growing security clampdown now sees most hotels, and some shopping malls, guarded by groups of machine-gun-toting soldiers and officials who frisk pedestrians and subject entering vehicles to detailed examinations that include a sweep of the chassis with flashlight and mirror-equipped poles. Some of the city's most popular expat watering holes?such as the usually packed BATS at the Shangri...
...looked like the U.S. would have a chance at redemption. The world knows the current administration doesn’t play multilateralist games, so it was even more surprising when Bush whipped the U.N. into line using the moralistic language of international law. Preoccupied with voicing their increasingly shrill demands that the United States consult the U.N., France, Russia, Germany and the rest of the gang apparently missed the fact that Iraq is not in compliance with several Security Council resolutions. Bush was able to paint himself as the champion of internationalist legitimacy and corral his allies at the same...
Last week European opposition to an assault on Iraq was particularly shrill. In Germany, Chancellor Gerhard Schröder kicked off his re-election campaign by proclaiming in a speech in Hanover that "under my leadership, this country won't participate in any adventures [against Iraq]." And in Britain, everyone from trade union leaders to former military chiefs felt compelled to air their misgivings. Pax Christi, a Catholic group, submitted a petition signed by nearly 3,000 individuals to Prime Minister Tony Blair condemning any invasion as "immoral and illegal...
...could cow congressional fence-sitters and even Saddam's reluctant neighbors to make common cause with Washington. Despite their loud objections to military action, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Turkey and Iran have a huge incentive to influence the nature of any post-Saddam regime. But they're issuing increasingly shrill warnings against a U.S. attack while the Israeli-Palestinian conflict remains dangerously volatile. Jordan's King Abdullah, en route to Washington on Tuesday, called the idea of attacking Iraq under present circumstances "ludicrous." Although they may have convinced themselves that ousting Saddam would allow the U.S. to reorder the Middle...