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syoshioka99
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 Posted: Sun Jul 14, 2013 12:55 pm Post subject: Questions regarding English words [Posted from Korea] |
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For over a half a century, American policy in the Middle East has been guided by several core security objectives: preventing any power in the region from emerging as a hegemon; ensuring the free flow of energy resources, still vital to the operation of the world economy; and attempting to broker a durable peace between Israel and its neighbors, including a settlement with the Palestinian Arabs. In the past decade, Iran has emerged as the principal challenge to all three of these objectives. These interests have not been abolished by the Arab Spring; their implementation has grown more urgent. A process that ends with regional governments either too weak or too anti-Western in their orientation to lend support to these outcomes, and in which American partnerships are no longer welcomed, must evoke American strategic concerns――regardless of the electoral mechanisms by which these governments come to power. Within the framework of these general limits, American policy has significant
scope for creativity in promoting humanitarian and democratic values.
The United States should be prepared to deal with democratically elected Islamist governments. But it is also free to pursue a standard principle of traditional foreign policy to condition its stance on the alignment of its interests with the actions of the government in question.
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Kissinger wrote this article.
1) Whate are "general limits"? The word "general" is very vague to me. Could you rephrare it to something else?
2) Please rephrase the word "condition". I know it's a verb.
 Thank you! 
(source: http://www.henryakissinger.com/articles/iht040212.html) |
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syoshioka99
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| Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 5:28 am Post subject: Re: Questions regarding English words [Posted from Korea] |
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| syoshioka99 wrote: |
For over a half a century, American policy in the Middle East has been guided by several core security objectives: preventing any power in the region from emerging as a hegemon; ensuring the free flow of energy resources, still vital to the operation of the world economy; and attempting to broker a durable peace between Israel and its neighbors, including a settlement with the Palestinian Arabs. In the past decade, Iran has emerged as the principal challenge to all three of these objectives. These interests have not been abolished by the Arab Spring; their implementation has grown more urgent. A process that ends with regional governments either too weak or too anti-Western in their orientation to lend support to these outcomes, and in which American partnerships are no longer welcomed, must evoke American strategic concerns――regardless of the electoral mechanisms by which these governments come to power. Within the framework of these general limits, American policy has significant
scope for creativity in promoting humanitarian and democratic values.
The United States should be prepared to deal with democratically elected Islamist governments. But it is also free to pursue a standard principle of traditional foreign policy to condition its stance on the alignment of its interests with the actions of the government in question.
[questions]
Kissinger wrote this article.
1) Whate are "general limits"? The word "general" is very vague to me. Could you rephrare it to something else?
2) Please rephrase the word "condition". I know it's a verb.
Thank you!
(source: http://www.henryakissinger.com/articles/iht040212.html) |
You can answer (do your best) one of my questions. Especially I want to know the answer 2). Thanks in advance.  |
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IanT
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| Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 10:40 am Post subject: |
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general limits (here) means everything the writer has just written about what America's attitude "must" be.
and for "condition", you could use change, adapt, tailor...
Best wishes,
Ian
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syoshioka99
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| Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 4:09 am Post subject: |
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| IanT wrote: |
general limits (here) means everything the writer has just written about what America's attitude "must" be.
and for "condition", you could use change, adapt, tailor...
Best wishes,
Ian |
I undersntand "condition" part, but not "general limits." Sorry!
 Could you just rephrase them? |
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IanT
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| Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 7:51 am Post subject: |
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Hmmm
"within the framework of these main guidelines"
"... these initial outlines"
"... these basic principles"
Something like that?
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syoshioka99
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| Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2013 9:01 am Post subject: |
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| Thank you so much, Ian. |
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