At 57, his public image is fixed as that of a homespun defender of western interests, with an oft-mimicked drawl.
French officials have said they feared the campaign could lead jihadist movements to target French and Western interests in retaliation.
This common sense proposition is all the more true if, as the Center contends, such initiatives are themselves contrary to Western interests.
He is also astute enough to pay heed to western interests.
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Whether Western interests (mining, tobacco and finance) should withdraw or set themselves up as drivers of change is a question that demands careful and urgent consideration.
The worry is that they and other Westerners might pose a threat when they return a home, or perhaps end up targeting Europe or Western interests in the Middle East.
Many older Africans vividly recall how their homeland was exploited by Western interests who failed to empower local populations, leading to widespread human suffering that still exists today.
The Foreign Office has also advised vigilance in Libya following French military intervention in Mali saying there was "a possibility of retaliatory attacks targeting Western interests in the region".
The BBC's Security Correspondent Frank Gardner said the move to suspend twice-weekly flights from Yemen to the UK was prompted by concerns that another attack on Western interests could be imminent.
And other attacks that we have seen have been focused on the interface between Western interests here, whether it's the oil companies, whether it's Western tourists or the diplomatic premises here.
But even if the dilemma of Somalia is insoluble, it should not deter Western nations from efforts to defeat the pirates or at least render them impotent to threaten Western interests.
For want of a better term, such an environment might be called Pax Americana, a world order that has in the past proven much more secure and conducive to Western interests than that now being contemplated by Gen.
Beeman, a professor at Brown University who's an authority on Central Asia, to conclude that Osama bin Laden's bombings in 1998 of U.S. embassies in Africa were designed to nip the budding relationship between the Taliban and Western interests.
Ms. RICE: Well, I don't think it's - we ought to make the assumption that simply because we're dealing with a Sunni-based insurgency in Iraq and Sunni Muslims in Somalia and other parts of Africa, that they necessarily share a common agenda against the United States or against Western interests.
It strains credulity that the U.S. would knowingly wish to hold the stock of a company whose corporate interests may lead it and its government to pursue an agenda antithetical to Western security interests and at odds with U.S. policies and laws for crass commercial reasons.
The whole problem in Africa is a consequence of Western vested interests in the place and it is such a tragedy to see it unfolding.
He had experience representing Western mining interests in Mongolia, whose vast, untapped reserves of copper, gold, and coal are at the center of an international scramble.
It recommends specific approaches that, if adopted by the American government in strategy sessions scheduled to begin tomorrow, hold the greatest promise of safeguarding Western security interests.
It also urges Congress to hold urgent hearings into German export practices and to examine with care the real risks they pose to American and Western security interests -- and the additional costs imposed on U.S. defense expenditures.
The Russians even abstained from the UN vote on intervention on Libya, a concession to Western and American interests that would have been inconceivable in the poisonous atmosphere of late 2008 and early 2009.
Western prestige and interests there.
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Worse yet, U.S. policy-makers and their G-7 counterparts risk undermining important Western security and economic interests by misreading the underlying fundamentals at work.
It is being backed by major, mainly Western firms, many with interests in China.
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Should it become a broad-based national opposition, or a regional movement representing the narrow interests of its Western Cape supporters?
The prevailing Western ethic assumes that human interests must always prevail over the comparable interests of members of other species.
By contrast, the presence of mutually beneficial and peaceful relations as well as healthy democratic institutions throughout the Western Hemisphere serve to protect American interests.
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He pursued two intertwined interests: military arts and western expansion.
Though it has cushioned the effects of Serbia's blockade, this aid has not so far been effective enough to convince a clear majority of Montenegrins that their interests are served by pro-western policies.
Such a development would be neither in the interests of the Soviet people nor compatible with vital Western security concerns.
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