Word: aggressors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lowers his voice so much it is hard to hear him. He looks again at the Amnesty International report. "No question," he says. "You do not placate an aggressor. You do not reward aggression. There's a lot of historical precedent to look at on this...
Many people are arguing that we should allow more time for economic sanctions to work, but the sanctions are highly unlikely to produce a peaceful settlement acceptable to the United States and the rest of the world. Historically, economic sanctions have almost never worked to make an aggressor back down from an aggression, and there is no evidence that this time there will be an exception...
Arabs and Israelis have been battling each other for so many years that it no longer seems to matter much who throws the first punch on any given day. To the aggressor, violence is always a form of retaliation or self-defense. Consider what happened last week on the Temple Mount...
Israeli officials have followed Washington's directives with unprecedented restraint, knowing that any military move against Baghdad on their part would turn Saddam into a hero of the Arab masses, paint Israel as the aggressor and perhaps force several Arab allies now in the U.S. camp over to Saddam's side, or at least to the sidelines. Following a series of war games held by the general staff in an underground command bunker in the central part of the country, Israel's brass concluded that for now, the consequences of an Iraqi attack on Israel would be less severe than...
...NATIONS. The organization, long derided as tangential at best, was quietly making a comeback by mediating settlements in such trouble spots as Namibia and Angola. In the gulf crisis it has functioned at long last as its creators hoped it would 45 years ago, focusing world condemnation on an aggressor, authorizing a global embargo and even voting to permit the use of force to back up that squeeze. The Bush Administration would like to make the U.N. a cornerstone of its plans to construct a New World Order. The U.N. will continue to be effective, however, only so long...