Word: weaknessness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Our carefully worded letter to the septuagenarian dictators in Beijing was not, as some of the more extreme critics would have it, a “national humiliation.” It made us look weak, yes, to declare that “we are very sorry the entering of...
The real question, though, is why this harder line wasn’t taken before our airmen were allowed to come home. In an incident where the Chinese pilot, not our crew, was to blame, why did the Bushies even take seriously the Chinese demand for an apology from us...
Authorizing the Aegis sale right now, though, carries great danger. Not only does it challenge Beijing to come up with a strong response, but more important, could severely weaken the hand of the moderates in Beijing who seek a good relationship with the West. President Jiang and his moderate allies...
War is complicated. Death is simple. And photos like these promise to assuage our longing for a simple answer to a temptingly simple question: Who is the bad guy here? Images of war have long helped sway opinion: the summary execution of a Viet Cong by a South Vietnamese police...
But much of America got addicted a long time ago to sensation and controversy, in the way that people get hooked on sex or drugs. Zealots bizarrely think of balance as a point of weakness.<