The second cause of the administration's hostility toward Israel is the Olmert government's irresolute handling of the Second Lebanon War last year.

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The consequence has been devastating: just when the country should be unleashing its technological ingenuity to defend against future attacks, scientists stand irresolute, cowed into inaction.

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Condi Rice should impress upon her European interlocutors that neither we nor they any longer have the luxury of waging this war in a half-hearted and irresolute fashion .

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In such conflicts, both sides are compelled by the fear of appearing weak or irresolute to not only match, but to raise, the level of pressure or threat against the other in recurring rounds of provocation and response, and to never back down.

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Such statements and actions suggest that the Chinese today, like the Japanese sixty years ago, put great faith in the ability of a materially weaker challenger to defeat a major power which looks stronger, but which they believe has become decadent and irresolute in the use of power.

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