But four years of Trump have also severely damaged US standing and credibility globally. In particular, the Trump years severely undercut US credibility and prestige around the world and damaged world order, or what pundits call the liberal international order, which was created and led by the U...
"Associates hold themselves accountable for doing what they say they will do to build and maintain credibility. We do not tolerate jerks because we recognize we are only as good as the lowest level of performance we are willing to accept." ...
The notion that credibility is important in international politics, and maintaining it requires following through on threats and commitments to establish a reputation for resolve, has been standard diplomatic savoir-faire for decades, with its most influential articulation in the work of Thomas Schelling...
As governor of South Carolina in 2015, she gained that “strange new respect” from the left for removing the Stars and Bars from the state capitol in response to a mass shooting committed by a white supremacist at a historically black church. She used this newfound credibility on matters of...
"My predominant concern during Watergate was not the investigations that formed the headlines of the day. It was to sustain the credibility of the United States as a major power," Kissinger wrote in his 1982 memoir "Years of Upheaval." "I became the focal point of a degree of support unpr...
One’s interpretation of the studies on E3 (and GMD) is based largely on the credibility one gives to the underlying Commission or Institute, and not the published calculations. FERC has decided not to proceed with a GMD standard that includes EMP [47]. It will be recalled the GMD ...
Our grip on reality – and our credibility with key voters such as independents, moderates, and even many conservatives – will continue to slip if we don’t take a stand and stop this nonsense. p. 158 We learned in Bob Woodward’s infamous interview that the president clearly knew the ...
Pledges by the administration that every strikebreaker would be protected lacked credibility and t he population did not take them seriously. 2. Despite the fact that the strike and all the preparations and events that accompanied it was planned and executed by RAKAH , the party decided not to...
Stories like CBS’s Cam Ne piece exposed the “credibility gap,” the yawning chasm between the claims of official sources and the reality on the ground in Vietnam.Nothing did more to expose this gap than the 1968 Tet Offensive. In January, communist forces engaged in a coordinated attack ...
eager for lucrative profits from experimental vaccines and their own patented and very expensive drugs. This exact debate has been raging on the Internet since the early months of 2020, and I have never taken a stand on the contentious issue. But although I can’t weigh the credibility of th...