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Or, rather, the rhetoric of many Republicans aspiring to be President sounds like a perversion of what he saw in 1831.
But it is a tribute to the American two-party system’s capacity for political integration that extremist forces remain marginalized, despite the rhetoric of the Tea Party.
Fossil-Fuel DoublespeakBERLIN – Since the Paris climate agreement was signed in 2015, too many policymakers have fallen for the oil and gas industry’s rhetoric about how it can help to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
(This is actually what the Brexit referendum was about, a fact buried beneath the runaway rhetoric of the campaign leading up to the vote.)
It does not help that some Korean and Chinese leaders have used anti-Japanese rhetoric to win domestic support.
Whatever the rhetoric in France, for example, the policies and attitudes in countries such as Britain or Poland demonstrate that good trans-Atlantic relations can be maintained.
Recent official US rhetoric and actions on the ground – including the arrest of five Iranians in Irbil in early January and Bush’s authorization of deadly force against Iranians who threaten Iraqi security or US troops – reflect a much more confrontational approach toward Iran’s influence inside Iraq.
Indeed, critics of the government believe that its incendiary rhetoric might lead to a devastating war.
In fact, anti-Israel rhetoric reflects Iranian leaders’ confidence that Israel will not attack – a view that is bolstered by the situation in Syria.
That said, since the Islamic Republic’s emergence in 1979, Iran’s leaders have generally preferred Republican presidents to Democrats: despite their harsh rhetoric, Republicans have been more willing to engage with Iran in practice.
For example, earlier this month, while many were fixated on Trump’s rhetoric, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson secured United Nations Security Council approval for increased sanctions on North Korea, and China said that it would curtail its imports from the North.
The incendiary rhetoric of Palestine’s supporters in the Arab world has never done much for the Palestinian people, either.
The combination of socialist rhetoric and business-friendly corporatism is mostly new to Latin America.
Israeli hardliners saw the “war on terror” and the war in Iraq as their wars, supported Bush’s war-like rhetoric and isolation of Iran, and considered the neo-conservatives their ideological kin.
When the Arab Spring revolutions erupted, the US response was weak and muddled, oscillating between pro-democracy rhetoric and support for anti-Islamist autocrats.
The rhetoric of energy independence in the oil-consuming countries makes the situation even worse: the oil-producing countries are building energy-intensive industries to guarantee a market for their oil once consuming nations wean themselves of imported oil.
As for Germany’s ability to assert itself, there is not much evidence of it, despite the vigorous rhetoric.
Managing the US-China relationship in general, and the South China Sea in particular, requires, above all, keeping official rhetoric under control.
Behind the new rhetoric lurk the same old neo-liberal policies of unthinking liberalization and privatization.
And the rhetoric – at least from one side – has come to resemble that of Winston Churchill’s 1946 “Iron Curtain” speech, one of the inaugural events of the Cold War.
But the Trump administration has more urgent priorities than changing China’s system of government, notwithstanding the aggressive rhetoric of US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and White House National Trade Council Director Peter Navarro.
Today, however, the loyalists’ rhetoric is more aggressive.
The Council needs to devote less rhetoric and more formal process to conflict and crisis prevention, with improved early-warning and briefing mechanisms.
In Egypt, Mubarak turned his back on the lofty rhetoric of Gamal Abdel-Nasser’s revolution and its grand strategic designs.
This rhetoric is reminiscent of Putin’s bellicose stance during the Second Chechen War in 1999, which boosted his popularity considerably, helping to make him a viable contender to succeed Yeltsin.
I am tempted to absolve these leaders of their reckless rhetoric by blaming it on biology.
Others were too focused on ideological rhetoric to do much good.
Like Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Harry Truman before him, Bush turned to the rhetoric of democracy to rally his followers in a time of crisis.
After initial resistance, Bush began to change his rhetoric by suggesting that a troop drawdown would occur sooner than previously expected.
Not surprisingly, Bush’s new rhetoric stresses that he has a “strategy for victory.”
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