Word: weaknessness
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The most serious dangers for America do not arise from its so-called political weakness, but from the inability or unwillingness of its people to deal with problems like inflation or the waste of oil and natural gas.
Last week the editors of TIME brought together seven foreign policy experts, some with long years of public service (see box), for a wide-ranging discussion on the upheavals in the crisis area and on what the U.S. could do to strengthen its influence there. The experts found signs of...
Critics berate him for weakness, but he keeps to a course of restraint
The President himself feels unfairly besieged by the rash of criticism of his foreign policy. He thinks that his show of restraint should be seen not as weakness but rather as the patient forbearance of a powerful nation and its leader. Indeed, in all his public speeches, even as a...
The opponents also conveniently ignore the ratification process, which would block radical change no matter how far afield a convention's amendments ran. It is true that the 1787 convention tossed its agenda aside and offered an entirely new constitution; the states ratified it then because of the apparent weakness...