Word: statecraft
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...replies, "I'd even defend Bush. Of course he'd have to admit his guilt first." The answer is flippant, but it points to a question posed by this meticulous, powerful film: Why is the violence committed by individuals called terrorism, while the violence committed by nations called statecraft...
...rebellious Ukraine in 1932-33 (10 million by Stalin's count) and Mao's catastrophic Great Leap Forward into prolonged famine in 1957-62 (at least 27 million). Uganda and Kampuchea have produced more recent evidence that Hitler's policy of mass murder as an instrument of statecraft was not unique. Yet the Final Solution remains the archetype of man's bestiality to man, and there are compelling reasons for this to be so. The villain: Hitler still seems the embodiment of melodramatic evil, a spellbinder sent from hell or central casting. The perpetrators: a civilized Western nation conceived...
...measured by recent public expressions of dissent, their strategy?aided, of course, by the benefits of a vibrant economy?has so far seemed to come liability-free. But one wonders how long such avoidance will serve China. As Guan Zi, a text written around the 4th century B.C. on statecraft noted: "Those who would question the present should investigate the past. Those who do not understand what is to come should look at what has gone before." Even Deng Xiaoping once declared: "Our principle is that every wrong should be righted...
...Bush begins his second term, it looks as if North Korea policy will assume a new prominence in American statecraft?and the Administration will take a harder line on Pyongyang. Skeptics argue that Bush has never had a North Korea policy, only an attitude, and that he has more than enough on his plate in Iraq to keep him busy. But such arguments may "misunderestimate" the temperament of both Bush and the U.S. This is not a President who dreams of leaving behind a few new treaties as his political legacy; he thinks in more simple terms of making...
...faculty. Somebody who could handle the barons of academe can also handle State and the Pentagon. Finally, you have the ear of a President who trusts and respects you. That's an asset Powell never had. Now to the tough stuff. You were raised in the realist tradition of statecraft, but scorn for its tenets was the greatest sin of the President's first term. The failure came in two parts. One was the treacherous belief in the limitless fungibility of military power - as if it were the one supercurrency that could buy everything else: political clout, hearts and minds...