Word: summiteering
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...over borders and ports, which ends with a newly drawn map. "A group like al-Qaeda cannot be deterred or placated or reasoned with at a conference table," Cheney said. And so this war will not end in a treaty. "There will be no peaceful coexistence, no negotiations, no summit, no joint communique with the terrorists," he said. "The struggle can end only with their complete and permanent destruction." We want the killing to stop, there and here, but because no one can point to an easy way out, some choice to make or policy to propose, the only...
Forgive the man for looking pleased. By the time President George W. Bush arrived in Shanghai last week for the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit--that's the one that usually ends with a picture of leaders wearing identical silly shirts--he could feel delighted with five weeks of American diplomacy. After Sept. 11, many of those with whom Washington has had prickly relations melted like a cheerleader with a crush on the quarterback. Russia made a strategic choice to throw in its lot with the West. The government of Pakistan, a nuisance for a decade, acceded to pretty...
...peered approvingly four months ago. Bush and Putin discussed the size of cuts the U.S. is ready to make in its nuclear arsenal in return for Russian acquiescence to America's missile-defense program. The aim: to conclude a grand nuclear bargain at the soul brothers' November summit in Crawford, Texas...
...help that the President, stopping over in California on his way to an economic summit in Shanghai when Congress evacuated, had virtually nothing to say about the matter. "We cannot put him out at each new development," a senior Administration official told TIME. "And there were a lot of developments this week." Bush doesn't want to be announcing the results of each nasal swab; that's what Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and Homeland Security czar Tom Ridge are meant to do. But Wednesday they were saying little and nothing, respectively, so Bush's silence just compounded...
...Wednesday morning, as President Bush was preparing to leave town for the Asian economic summit, he had breakfast with Lott, Daschle, House Speaker Dennis Hastert and House minority leader Dick Gephardt. The five men have got chummier these past weeks. They had conspired to isolate the hotheads and slowpokes in both parties and move legislation for the war on terrorism with what for Washington was record speed. Daschle recounted what he had learned, including the possibility of spores spreading through the mail system to the House side of the Capitol, three blocks away. The men discussed the merits of shutting...