Word: unilateralist
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...solid year or more, France and Germany have taken great delight in denouncing the selfish "unilateralism" of the United States - "Dirty Harry" and "Globocop" rolled into one. But who is a unilateralist now? Last week the Continent's two biggest fish demonstrated how well they, too, can play a self-centered game - and proved that power is a temptation for all nations, not just the U.S. What the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change and the International Criminal Court are to America (the U.S. says no to both), the E.U. Stability and Growth Pact is to France and Germany. The pact...
...failure of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is the expected result of arrogant unilateralist thinking, a tough-guy mentality and ignorance about the rest of the world. Bush and his handlers were so sure they had it right that they viewed culture and history as irrelevant. Plenty of friends and allies warned the Bush Administration that the Iraqis would not welcome U.S. occupation any more than the Palestinians or the Lebanese have welcomed Israeli occupation. And there was no shortage of people who could report on the crumbling Iraqi infrastructure. I don't buy the explanation that...
...failure of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is the expected result of arrogant unilateralist thinking, a tough-guy mentality and ignorance about the rest of the world. Bush and his handlers were so sure they had it right that they viewed culture and history as irrelevant. Plenty of friends and allies warned the Bush Administration that the Iraqis would not welcome U.S. occupation any more than the Palestinians or the Lebanese have welcomed Israeli occupation. And there was no shortage of people who could report on the crumbling Iraqi infrastructure. I don't buy the explanation that...
...said we were [overstretched] during the [2000 election] campaign and now we have many more troops abroad than before. Of course, he was against "nation building" back then too. I think that we will need even more troops abroad if we keep insulting the U.N. and NATO nations. Being unilateralist is bad for foreign policy and for our economy. Maybe the American people should consider the intelligence of the candidate they vote for next time. Voting for president is not like selecting a prom king. Tamara Johnson Wales, Wisc...
Shanghai likes to play by its own rules. But the city's unilateralist approach to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) puzzles a senior hospital administrator from Shanghai's Huangpu district. A month ago, visiting experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) said Shanghai would relax its superstringent standards for diagnosing suspected SARS patients to conform with international norms. That should have caused the city's tiny caseload of suspected SARS patients to increase substantially. But just a couple of days after the WHO's announcement, the hospital administrator was curtly informed by local health-bureau officials that the standards would...