Word: hell-bent
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...closed-doors lunch after Friday's meeting with the U.N.'s chief weapons inspectors, Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei, Powell made an emotional last appeal for support, telling the other ministers that the U.S. would never have come to the U.N. to begin with if it were hell-bent on war. Powell's speech may have softened the hearts of wavering member states: one U.N. ambassador at the lunch told TIME Powell's speech "inspirational...
...much old-world refinement to join a screaming mob and burn an American flag. Nor would he dream of strapping a bomb to his stomach and blowing himself up in a shopping mall. Still, he sees the U.S. as a force of great evil that, along with Israel, is hell-bent on destroying Islam. "The Americans and the Zionists have started this war," he says. "What can we do but fight back...
...don’t profess to understand how President George W. Bush thinks. From a distance, though, he does seem irrationally hell-bent on invasion. This determination defies any goal-centered mode of thinking: there is, after all, no plan—at least no public plan—for restoring stability in Iraq after a war, nor is there an exit strategy. No one seems to know what will happen after an invasion, what Bush wants to accomplish or what each American soldier will be trying to implement. Conventional logic fails. So what sort of logic is Bush using...
...threat posed by Saddam Hussein, and therefore also over the appropriate penalties. There is little argument in the Security Council over whether or not Baghdad is in breach of many of its disarmament obligations. But while President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair insist that Saddam is hell-bent on stockpiling non-conventional weapons and will inevitably share them with al-Qaeda, the antiwar Europeans see him less as a rising menace than as an incorrigible nuisance who has nonetheless been left substantially weaker by a decade of containment than he was when his armies were soundly thrashed...
...appeals to give diplomacy a chance. Secretary of State Colin Powell refused even to call the situation a "crisis." But with each new North Korean gambit, that official insouciance sounds more off-key. Seemingly overnight, the U.S. begins the New Year eyeball to eyeball with a paranoid, ruthless regime hell-bent on obtaining nuclear weapons to complement an army the Pentagon rates among the most formidable in the world. And so, despite their stoic miens, White House officials are grasping for some way to yank North Korea back from the precipice and return everyone's focus to that other spoke...