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In his masterpiece, The Prince , Niccolò Machiavelli offers a rather pessimistic view on human nature, in which ‘love is held by a chain of obligation which, since men are bad, is broken at every opportunity for personal gain’.
The pessimistic spin: This marks a "significant souring in the American-Russian relationship" and "could poison discussions" on arms control, which are more important than Yugoslavia.
You mention her "optimism"; I would prefer the word "cheer," for I think Powell was deeply pessimistic in many ways--in the grand old Stoical manner--and that it was this pessimism that permitted her to throw herself into life and living with such abandon.
The pessimistic spin: The escalation reflects a deep distrust between GM and the UAW that will cause an even worse strike when their national agreement expires next year.
The nonpartisan pessimistic line: We'd better try something, because the alternative--mutual nuclear deterrence--nearly led to U.S.-Soviet disaster early in the Cold War and is likely to be even less stable in the case of India and Pakistan.