Word: weaknessness
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Others worry about America's standing abroad. Though the U.S. abides by most treaty obligations, its reputation has been seriously damaged after eight years of high profile snubs by the Bush Administration - starting with the abrogation of the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, and peaking with Bush's war on terror...
Chrysantus Ayangafac, a Pretoria-based researcher from the International Institute of Strategic Studies, argued in a paper this month that even such a limited military intervention "will have high diplomatic, human and financial cost implications for the AU, which it can ill afford. Besides, any sustained military intervention in the...
Five years ago President Bush invaded Iraq, one thing that representatives from the Harvard College Democrats and the Harvard Republican Club can agree on—anything else is up for debate. In a debate last night on the direction of the Iraq War, democratic representatives, Sahand Moarefy â?...
Others aren't that patient. "We need drastic measures to solve these problems," says Yamamoto of Royal Bank of Scotland. "Intervention may work to buy time, but it's not a fundamental solution. The authorities in Japan know this and they're hesitant to act." Finance Minister Fukushiro Nukaga did...
Beijing is particularly incapable of flexibility when it comes to policy toward ethnic areas of the country because it fears that any sign of weakness could open up the floodgates and lead to widespread demand for autonomy in other areas such as the Muslim province of Xinjiang. "There is just...