Word: hawkishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...both parties lambasted George Bush for failing to dispatch American troops to snatch the dictator and spirit him back to the U.S., where he is wanted on drug-trafficking charges. The White House in turn scolded Congress for trying to micromanage a fast-moving crisis and for hypocritically turning hawkish after earlier rejecting Administration plans for covert action against the strongman. There is plenty of blame to go around...
...control a new and more complicated diplomatic environment. To cement his authority, Shamir refused to repeat the 1984 unity agreement under which each party in turn held the Prime Minister's chair. Reinforcing the government's shift to the right is the appointment of Likud's Moshe Arens, the hawkish former Ambassador to Washington, to replace Labor leader Shimon Peres as Foreign Minister in Shamir's 26-member Cabinet. Peres, under strong pressure from his party to ensure a government bailout of the troubled Histadrut labor federation and the kibbutz movement, the twin pillars of Labor support, opted instead...
When former Texas Senator John Tower sat down for a job interview with George Bush in mid-November, he had a surprise for the President-elect: a five-point plan for cleaning up the mess at the Pentagon. Since the plan came from, of all people, the hawkish Tower, Bush was startled -- and impressed -- by what he heard. "It was the exact opposite of what they expected him to say," said an adviser who helped Tower prepare. According to Tower's associates, Bush declared near the end of the meeting that he would announce his choice for Secretary of Defense...
...intervention and covert operations are very much a product of their life experiences. Bush is the first former CIA director to seek the White House; Dukakis was an exchange student in Peru at the time of the 1954 CIA-backed coup in Guatemala. Small wonder that Bush retains a hawkish can-do faith in covert action; Dukakis is a multilateralist keenly aware of the damage to American prestige and fair-play values that can be the permanent byproduct of unwise subversion and military intervention...
...portray the Democrats as the inheritors of intellectual doubt and malaise, the party that is soft on defense, that perceives America as being on a long, slow decline. The Republicans, by contrast, have successfully cast themselves as the party of stand-tall patriotism and vigilant anti-Communism. As the hawkish Republican Congressman Newt Gingrich of Georgia put it, "If this election is between George Bush and someone who is more liberal than George McGovern, we win. If it's an election between two competent leaders, we lose...