Word: standoff
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...Bush's cautious management style sometimes leads to procrastination. Critics say he waits too long, resisting change until the last possible moment. Last week he placed his first phone calls to the leaders of India and Pakistan since the current standoff between the two nuclear-armed nations heated up in mid-May. The proposal to give Homeland Security Cabinet rank came after months of White House resistance. On March 19, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer declared that "creating a new Cabinet post doesn't solve anything...
...standoff is causing concern inside the Bush Administration too. A skirmish over Kashmir could easily accelerate into a broader war. The remote but frighteningly thinkable worst-case scenario would see the two sides escalate in stages to an exchange of nuclear weapons. But even short of that unlikely cataclysm, the seriousness of the dispute requires American diplomatic attention and threatens to affect Washington's war on terror, particularly as Pakistan moves troops away from its western border with Afghanistan to the Kashmir front. U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage is scheduled to visit India and Pakistan this week...
...Unholy Standoff...
...quite significant that the standoff between Israelis and Palestinians at the Church of the Nativity [WORLD, May 20] occurred in one of the holiest sites in Christianity, the presumed birthplace of Jesus. I found the way the besieged Palestinians behaved at this holy site extremely disturbing. Instead of respecting the sanctuary offered them, they acted like common thieves, robbing the Armenian priests of their crucifixes and blankets. If the situation were different and Christian militants were seeking refuge in a mosque or some other Muslim holy site, would they be granted sanctuary? Would the abuse of an Islamic holy site...
...meantime, Vajpayee has undergone a sudden conversion from peacemaker to warmonger?primarily in response to political pressures. This year's standoff on the border shows the dovish Prime Minister has accepted the argument that war?or the threat of it?works. In comments that set off alarm bells around the world, Vajpayee last month spoke twice of an impending "decisive battle" against India's "enemy." Although he has repeatedly said that he does not want war, the Prime Minister has sound strategic reasons for ratcheting up the rhetoric. Since Sept. 11, he has found the international community more sympathetic...