Pompeo, a former Republican congressman from Kansas, Hes little backed of diplomaTrumpxperience, and is more of a hawk than Tillerson.
But the recent hard-line statements by the Chinese could push moderate Tibetans in a more radical direction.
Partly because of Trump's hard-line statements, however, it doesn't seem to be under serious consideration by the Administration at least for now.
Taliban commanders and spokesmen have publicly disclaimed interest in joining the government in hard-line statements, and say that they have no reason to do so because they believe they are winning the fight against Western and Afghan forces.
Moreover, voters expressed a skepticism about the hard-line statements against abortion by some candidates, particularly Gov. George W. Bush of Texas, saying they could be merely an effort to win ardently conservative voters in the Republican primaries.
In what appeared to be a reference to statements by hard-line leaders who have called for Arab military attacks on Israel, including the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, and the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, Mr. Mubarak, who leads the Arab world's most populous nation, said peace was "still possible" if Arab nations "use reason and stop outbidding ourselves" with hard-line statements.
The announcement is a hard-line statement of authority that also sounds oddly like an admission of incompetence.
Cablevision took a hard line in its own statement Friday, saying that it had "no expectation of carrying" Scripps's programming again, "given the dramatic changes in their approach to working with distributors to reach television viewers".
The army acted "in response to a public clamor" for a hard line against political subversives, the statement said.
A number of opposition fighters and commanders have already shown an interest in peace, despite the Taliban's hard-line public statements, and some individuals and isolated groups have already negotiated to come over to the government, Western and Afghan officials said.
Mr. Sikorski was said to be the strongest voice inside the closed meetings for a hard line with Russia and a strong statement of support for Ukraine, which meets with the European Union on Tuesday.
