This event had a presence, a clean, expensive, judicious power.
In my view — and being in China certainly helps underscore this — to be a liberal today is to, among other things, support three basic issues: globalization, the judicious use of force in the face of America's real enemies and network solutions.
That is, I am someone who believes that to be a liberal today is to embrace globalization and free trade, and try to get the best out of them and cushion the worst, and to exercise the judicious use of force in confronting the very real enemies we have in the world today.
The new dynasty still had to face the various local rebels and warlords that had sprung up throughput the Chinese Empire, but by 628,with a judicious mixture of force and clemency, the Tang had succeeded in the pacification and consolidation of China under their rule.
"Frontline" does not provide an answer, but its judicious, insightful report forces us to ponder the question and its stark implications for the world we all live in now.
President Barack Obama used his first State of the Union address after once again ramping up U.S. military involvement in the Middle East to describe his foreign policy as a judicious mix of military force and diplomacy -- and left no doubt he believes positive engagement with the international community is key to what he called "a safer, more prosperous world".
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama used his first State of the Union address after once again ramping up U.S. military involvement in the Middle East to describe his foreign policy as a judicious mix of military force and diplomacy -- and left no doubt he believes positive engagement with the international community is key to what he called "a safer, more prosperous world".
This echoes Niebuhr's assertion, "As long as the world of man remains a place where nature and God, the real and the ideal, meet, human progress will depend upon the judicious use of the forces of nature in the service of the ideal".
No wonder she has caved in to market forces and incorporated judicious dollops of hip-hop and big-name guest rappers.
At a time when we now spend almost as much as the rest of the world combined on defense, we can make judicious cuts in our armed forces without compromising our military capability.
It is a serious, focused combination of global intelligence coordination, targeted killing of known terrorists and limited interventions — like Libya — that leverage popular forces on the ground and allies, as well as a judicious use of U.S. power, so that we keep the costs and risks down.
