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Obama's supine diplomacy

 
 
fansy
 
Reply Fri 20 Mar, 2009 07:12 am
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Obama’s “supine” diplomacy, Krauthammer thundered, was setting off a chain of catastrophes across the globe


Does it mean Obama's diplomacy is one of passivity or no-resistance?
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Setanta
 
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Reply Fri 20 Mar, 2009 07:18 am
@fansy,
Yes.
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contrex
 
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Reply Sat 21 Mar, 2009 01:59 am
@fansy,
The enclosure of the pejorative word "supine" in quotation marks indicates that the writer is reporting Krauthammer's accusation and does not necessarily agree with it.

The word "supine" in this context can have implications of cowardice or culpable inaction, whereas passivity and non-resistance need not be blameworthy (e.g. as practiced by Gandhi)
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