Word: counterweight
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...beyond this, the government suspects Hizballah will try to further the interests of its Iranian and Syrian backers. Far more is at stake than just another round of Lebanese political infighting. The U.S. supports Siniora's government as an example of a budding Arab democracy and as a useful counterweight to Syrian and Iranian regional ambitions. But an anti-Western alliance that includes Iran, Syria, Hizballah and Hamas wants to roll back U.S. influence in the Middle East, using Lebanon as the pivot. "Lebanon will be the defeat point for Israel and America," Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei said...
...looking at a Fox News chyron that reads, "If Rumsfeld left amid criticism, would America be at risk?" Covert, not so much. The network famously calls itself "fair and balanced," but "fair and balancing" would be a better description: Roger Ailes repeatedly describes his news network as a counterweight, on the right, to the rest of the news media. His argument that nearly every other mainstream media outlet slants left is self-serving and mostly wrong. (The MSM really slant toward the institutional, establishmentarian center, which is a bias as dangerous as any other.) But while "fair and balanced...
...where Moscow is feeling revitalized - yet there again, within limits. Arab unhappiness with the U.S. invasion of Iraq and stagnation in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process have given the Kremlin an opening to revive the strong ties the U.S.S.R. had with many Arab governments - which are glad for a counterweight to Bush. Last year Putin made the first journey to Cairo by a Russian head of state since Nikita Khrushchev's visit in 1964, just as President Hosni Mubarak was scrapping his annual trip to the White House. Russia is even starting an Arabic-language TV channel in the Middle...
...making stops both in Washington and at Graceland - Japan has taken a more muscular role in world affairs and sent troops to Iraq. The changes have been warmly welcomed in Washington, which has long wanted Japan to shoulder more responsibility for its own defense and become a more substantial counterweight to the regional ambitions of China and North Korea. The U.S. has been alone among the other nations in the on-again, off-again six-party talks over North Korea's nukes to back Japan's demand that the negotiations also include the issue of Japanese citizens who were abducted...
...most engaged alums and donors, and among the faculty leadership and deans...about the need to use Allston as a platform for innovative science,” Buehrens says.Harvard’s emphasis on science under Summers coincided with regional aspirations to establish Boston as an East coast counterweight to the technological powerhouses of Stanford and Caltech in California.Throughout his tenure, Summers went to great lengths to fashion a friendly relationship with Mayor Thomas M. Menino, known affectionately as “Mumbles.”The director of community relations for Boston, Kevin M. McClusky...