For now at least, the Iraqi government appears to be taking a strong, but somewhat vague, stance.
It is not that simple, given India's parliamentary system of democracy, and given the deliberately vague stance taken by Mr. Gandhi about his own political ambitions.
Fergus Ewing, Scotland's rural economy and connectivity cabinet secretary, said there was a striking contrast between Gove's pledges to protect the £3bn in subsidies for the mainstream farming industry until 2022 and his vague stance on all other rural funding.
In recent months, as Mongolian dissidents staged a series of public rallies and organized three new opposition political parties, the Foreign Ministry and the state-run media have usually taken either neutral or vaguely sympathetic stances toward the opposition.
In place of stagecraft, frontman Ian Brown adopts the vaguely belligerent stance of a man entering a pub that he was barred from last Christmas.
On issues ranging from the use of torture to intervention in Syria to health care, Trump has taken vague, often contradictory stances.
So far, Prime Minister John Howard has been vague about his stance on Kyoto but the pressure to ratify it is rising.
"They could have virtually abolished welfare by making all earnings below £10,000 tax-free... ...... There's only one party promising to do that, Aussie T. Isn't a vaguely pro-European stance, however distasteful to the average docker, a price worth paying for the virtual abolition of welfare?
"There is a certain amount of resentment from other clubs for its vaguely evangelical ecological stance that's backed up by the old-fashioned thing of just spending more money than your opponents," James Richardson, a longtime host of soccer TV shows and podcasts in Great Britain, told me.
Stanekzai departed from previously vague messages about the Taliban's stance on women.
For now, at least, the Iraqi government appears to be taking a strongly worded stance whose details are somewhat vague.
