Word: unilateralist
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...minute speech accepting his job rarely mentioned Bush in a substantive way. Cheney installed himself as overseer of defense and foreign policy portfolios, and sits in on the weekly lunches held by Rice, Rumsfeld and Powell. Lately his health and domestic issues have pulled Cheney back some. Despite his unilateralist outlook, White House aides say, the President still sees Cheney as an "honest broker," without the institutional agenda of Powell or Rumsfeld, which earns him a higher level of trust. Bush is said to admire and respect his Secretary of State. But when Bush doesn't know the issues...
...seems to depend on taking these standoffs right down to the wire. (Of course Russia achieves some moral high ground if it forces Bush's hand, because by withdrawing from the treaty that girds nuclear arms control, the U.S. would deepen European antipathy for an administration already considered alarmingly unilateralist by many of its allies.) Holding out may also be based on the risky calculation that failure to achieve agreement might prompt Capitol Hill moderates to put the brakes on national missile defense...
...that he's a policy lightweight to make his mark on the international stage, the Democrats' attack couldn't have come at a worse moment. Daschle's comments may be reassuring to long-time U.S. allies who have grown increasingly alarmed by what has been perceived as a strongly unilateralist instinct of the Bush administration. And a more assertive Democratic leadership in the Senate may also reinforce the position of Secretary of State Colin Powell, the administration's ranking foreign policy dove, in areas of conflict with the more hawkish Messrs. Cheney and Rumsfeld. But it also sounds a message...
...Thursday. These are places where talking policy is a treasured and complex art. There and elsewhere on his trip, Bush will face European Union members who are ideologically alien to him (11 of 15 E.U. governments are center-left) and wary of his reputation as a reckless cowboy, a unilateralist with scant regard for his allies. And when he caps his tour Saturday with Putin, he'll face his biggest challenge. The Russian is opposed to Bush's plans for a missile-defense system, and Bush needs to change Putin's mind. If Putin goes along, the rest of Europe...
...European leaders, the fear is that George Bush will act as if he's president of Texas: not exactly isolationist, but uncurious, prone to lecture, unilateralist. Even during the Clinton era they found Republicans in Congress hostile to the sorts of multilateral, institution-building initiatives that come naturally to close neighbors heavily invested in the long march of European union. Mainly because of Republican opposition, Washington owes back dues of some $1.65 billion to the U.N. and has shrunk its development aid to 0.11% of gdp, about one-third of the rich-country average, despite record U.S. budget surpluses...