Hawkishness

All the insane hawkishness mentioned above appears to have scared some sense into some influential voices in the mainstream media, with surprisingly anti-war arguments emerging in the last few days.

But McConnell’s hawkishness on foreign policy comes across as a gambit, too.

Arkansas’ Tom Cotton, whose uber-hawkishness risks being out of place in a post-Trump GOP, rushed to The New York Times op-ed page to embrace the president’s musings about purchasing Greenland.

Barr’s speech comes amid a developing trend of hawkishness against China in Washington.

Susan Rice might have a lot of experience in foreign policy, but it’s not clear what her actual views are: She was at the table for Obama administration decisions that tended toward hawkishness and toward restraint.

Subsequently, headlines sprawled and chyrons attacked Bolton for his hawkishness.

Yet in practice their apparently shared hawkishness was only skin deep.

Bolton’s hawkishness on Iran is not confined to disagreement with the deal.

But Republicans and conservatives can be forgiven for wondering if the Democrats’ newfound and highly selective hawkishness is a genuine effort to reckon with national-security realities or a ploy in a political game.

The increase in wages despite the decrease in jobs has been the norm for much of 2018–fodder for the Fed to continue its hawkishness.

Dole's hawkishness on the Vietnam War and on crime issues kept him in good standing with the right wing.

The nickname referred not to his military hawkishness but rather to his crusading for social welfare and civil rights programs.