An administration foreign policy official criticized the exchange services' imports from Myanmar, saying, "It's not consistent with the spirit of the administration's policy, which is very confrontational toward the regime".
Although the threat to Coalition Forces is limited, continued Iraqi confrontational actions underscore the regime's determination to stay the course.
The irony is that Bahari's well-meaning attempts to explain Iranian nuclear ambitions and other confrontational policies from the regime's standpoint, like Khatami's and Moussavi's attempts to "save the Revolution," are (correctly) taken by the Supreme Leader and his devotees to be even greater signs of counter-revolutionary perfidy than outright hostility.
As much as vital new repertory, stage directors and designers and their deliberately confrontational styles marked the Mortier regime.
Unfortunately, he died before his encyclical could be issued, and the draft was shelved by his successor, Pius XII, who decided to pursue a less confrontational course toward the fascist regimes.
As in Iran, the argument was that the confrontational style was simply feeding a regime that thrived on strife.
For much of his administration, even as he strengthened Iran by toppling Iran's nemesis Saddam Hussein, Mr. Bush struck a confrontational public line against the Iranian regime.
Solidarity with the Hamas regime skyrocket as Israeli confrontational policies and violent responses will be met with stubbornness on part of Hamas who until this moment has been guarding the Israeli borders and making sure no rockets are fired on the Israeli side.
Others, however, criticise him for his confrontational policies and ties with authoritarian regimes.
But while Odio and Penelas were impeccably liberal on domestic issues, their attitudes toward the Castro regime were every bit as confrontational as those of their Republican rivals.
