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In a number of telephone calls, all initiated by Blair and some lasting as long as 30 minutes, she urged him to "stiffen the spine" of the Americans, as she had done when she chided President Bush for going "wobbly" during the Gulf War.
Unsurprisingly, Bennett's project in The Death of Outrage is to stiffen America's backbone, to persuade us to care about Clinton's misdeeds and to punish them.
While Mr. Blair tried to stiffen spines among the other 17 Nato leaders arriving for the Alliance's 50 th birthday, Mr. Clinton made it clear that the world's sole superpower was underwriting the British-led escalation."
It's hard enough to work out a deal already, pundits observe, given that Democrats want to soften the censure resolution while Republicans want to stiffen it.
Last week, the U.S. government and European allies agreed they would stiffen sanctions on Serbia to protest the massacres.