Word: aggressor
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...Americans, disenchanted with their participation in the Great War, had turned their backs on the world and reverted to isolationism. Rigid neutrality acts denied the President authority to discriminate between aggressor states and their victims and thereby prevented the U.S. from throwing its weight against aggression...
Watching the videotape of our simulated attacks afterwards, we still laughed. Now, though, we laughed as one woman got in that gratuitous kick at her downed aggressor; as another screamed at the top of her lungs; as another hammered the helmet right off Darth. We reveled in such displays of aggression and victory, in the disparity between a five-foot-tall female and burly HUPD officers. I don't want to speak for the entire class, but I think we all felt a little more confident and powerful. I know...
...come if several days of bombing failed to change the fundamental equation. Saddam, his weapons of mass destruction and his Republican Guard would still be there. The U.S. could simply declare "mission accomplished" and stop. But Saddam could emerge to make a taunting speech, declare victory over the American aggressor and cut off all disarmament cooperation with the U.N. Would Clinton then be willing to go to war with Saddam and fight to the end? Could he win a battle of wills with Saddam, face down a furious Arab world and overcome the quiet disapproval of most of the NATO...
...campaign to ban land mines [NATION, Oct. 20] failed to mention many of the major disadvantages of the proposed land-mine treaty. It would ban land mines, without any exceptions. But these weapons can be a small nation's first and only line of defense against a larger aggressor. Also, I fail to see how the treaty will prevent most of the deaths and injuries. A large number of land mines are planted by terrorist groups which will not be bound by a piece of paper. MEHAL SHAH, age 14 Amherst...
...disarmed itself after every war, only to regret it when the next war comes along. War is expensive, and the best way to prevent it is to be strong. Having the best warplanes in the world is very cheap compared with the cost of going to war against an aggressor who thought we weren't ready. DOUGLAS STARK Homer, Alaska...