Word: support
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...Clinton administration's foreign policy is as extraordinary for its reliance on lethal force as for its complete inability to inspire any kind of vocal antiwar opposition. Despite the impression cultivated by mainstream media, McCain and Bush agree on many of their issues. They equally support America's blank check security guarantee to Taiwan. Both have come out in support of NATO's expansion. McCain has spoken in favor of the Bosnian and Kosovar campaigns while Bush one-ups him with his vague promises to lend "support" to "the Baltics, the Caucasus Central Asia and the Ukraine" by "promoting regional...
Neither of the two leading Republican presidential candidates appear to have lost as much as a wink of sleep over the million or more deaths caused by the Iraqi embargo. Bush and McCain both support enforcement of the sanctions, and McCain even openly demands the overthrow of Saddam's regime. One can only wonder how Bush and McCain can display such callous attitudes toward such blatant misinformation and destruction of innocent human life...
...reluctance to begin handing in weapons has been sharply criticized by the U.S. and Irish governments, as well as by the SDLP. "The IRA may have shot itself in the foot in terms of international support," says McAllister. "But there's clearly a split between the Sinn Fein leadership and the IRA hard men who've always been dubious about surrendering their weapons, even though those weapons are silent. Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness may have thought they could deliver at least a token IRA commitment by the end of January, but they clearly can't - and Trimble's ultimatum...
...state-to-state" basis, challenging the face-saving "One China" policy agreed upon by Beijing and Washington. While the House vote may be in part a bid to pile on election-year political pressure on the administration - and could augur badly for President Clinton's efforts to win legislative support this year for permanently normalized trade relations with China - the Taiwan Security Enhancement Act remains unlikely to win the two-thirds Senate majority needed to immunize it against a likely presidential veto. Still, the response to Lee's comments last year suggest that Beijing takes election-year rhetoric very seriously...
...Granite State as proof that perma-smirked Dubya doesn't have the broad appeal the party bosses once thought he did. Other self-professed realists maintain that Bush will still coast - the Texas governor has four times as much cash on hand as McCain, not to mention the support of the party establishment in virtually every state. What's more, most states don't allow registered independents, a key factor in New Hampshire, to vote in their primaries. This, along with the votes of conservatives wary of McCain who'll abandon the right-leaning Steve Forbes and Alan Keyes...