Congress approves defense budgets and declares war, the Senate ratifies treaties and confirms top diplomats and bureaucrats.
* Congress approves defense budgets and declares war, the Senate
ratifies treaties and confirms top diplomats Some famous diplomats include: Afghanistan
Algeria
- Abdelaziz Bouteflika
- Mohamed Seddik Benyahia
- Lakhdar Brahimi
Argentina
Australia
and bureaucrats. But the
day-to-day management of defense and foreign policy, war and peace,
rests with the White House. Voters and historians judge presidents on
their foreign-policy records; presidents running for re-election rightly
boast of their achievements, while their opponents naturally try to
criticize crit·i·cize
v. crit·i·cized, crit·i·ciz·ing, crit·i·ciz·es
v.tr.
1. To find fault with: criticized the decision as unrealistic. See Usage Note at critique. their shortcomings A shortcoming is a character flaw.
Shortcomings may also be: - Shortcomings (SATC episode), an episode of the television series Sex and the City
. When the Bush campaign unrolled its first
ads, some of them showed footage of World Trade Center ruins, and
firefighters carrying a flag-draped coffin. Democrats and left-wing
relatives of 9/11 victims cried foul. But it would have been eccentric
for a sitting president to ignore the most serious attack on American
soil since Pearl Harbor Pearl Harbor, land-locked harbor, on the southern coast of Oahu island, Hawaii, W of Honolulu; one of the largest and best natural harbors in the E Pacific Ocean. In the vicinity are many U.S. military installations, including the chief U.S. . 9/11 was an attack on us all. Discussion of it
should not be off limits just because it bothers the Kerry campaign.
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