Sentences with phrase «questions about our foreign policy»

Handling questions about her wardrobe just as deftly as questions about our foreign policy, despite only one of those areas being appropriate to have to discuss at work.

«One of the things that preceded the failure of the nation - state of Syria and the rise of ISIS was the effect of climate change and the mega-drought that affected that region, wiped out farmers, drove people to cities, created a humanitarian crisis that created the symptoms — or rather the conditions of extreme poverty — that has now led to the rise of ISIL and this extreme violence,» the former Maryland governor said, fielding a question about foreign policy from Bloomberg.

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More broadly, the Cuba problem has raised questions within the national security community about how the Trump administration is using intelligence information to guide its foreign policy.

Presidents are often tasked with posing difficult questions about foreign or domestic policy.

The corollary would be that a diminution of the public honor accorded to those who died in combat might be desirable in helping Mr. Hayes win his next round of foreign policy disputes with John McCain - disputes that he might otherwise lose in public argument about the merits of the military operation in question.

We should have asked real questions about the grievances caused throughout the world by our economic and foreign policies, military occupations and wars — but of course we don't want to go there!

The Revolution of 1989 in east and central Europe» a world - historical series of events ignited by moral passion, informed by moral conviction, sustained by deft and morally sophisticated politics, and supported by a resolute demonstration that the Soviet Union could not compete with the United States in a serious arms race» raised further questions about classic foreign - policy realism and its narrow focus on «hard power» as the analytic prism for understanding both the dynamics of world politics and the exigencies of American foreign policy.

I am frequently asked questions about the role of the U.S. press in relation to the widespread indifference to or ignorance about the human costs of U.S. foreign policy.

O'Reilly jumped right in, immediately asking questions about Trump's foreign policy, including the travel ban issued against residents of seven Middle East countries.

Understanding these internal political dynamics also raises interesting questions about which Western foreign policy strategies are likely to be most effective in encouraging economic reform within China.

There are also serious questions to be asked about Qatari foreign policy, with a growing number of MPs and commentators linking Qatari businessmen to the funding of Islamic State and terrorism across the Middle East.

The questions Paul has raised during his filibuster about the Obama administration's abuse of power (and that of predecessor George W. Bush) in the foreign policy (and even domestic intelligence) arenas, especially in the use of drones to murder innocent lives in Afghanistan, are legitimate.

This morning, Michael Levi, who analyzes energy and the environment for the Council on Foreign Relations, answered my question about the limits of presidential influence in a way that says Obama got it right by insisting that cutting demand through policies aimed at energy efficiency and the next generation of energy technologies had to be part of a long - term American energy (and oil) agenda.