Word: aggressors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believe that the Vance-Owen plan is in any way a just or practical alternative to military action is absurd. The plan treats Serbia as a legitimate party in a territorial dispute--not as a ruthless aggressor. No person who has seen the devastation, death and rape commited in the name of "ethnic cleansing" will accept a peace plan that rewards that aggression...
...best this kind of arrangement can function much like the U.N. coalition against Iraq did, with individual nations uniting to cut off the aggressor and forcing the return of captured land. Unlike the gulf coalition, however, real collective security will work even when there is no oil in sight--it works to cut off aggression early, before it can grow into a wider conflict...
...Pentagon's uniformed personnel at that time. None of the five other hostile states comes close to matching Iraq's pre-1991 strength on the ground or in the air. Moreover, the U.S. would almost certainly have allies in future combat against any would-be aggressor: South Korea in East Asia, Israel or friendly Arab states in the Middle East, NATO and possibly a U.N. force. Thus the U.S., even with a substantially scaled-down military, would be ready for any conflict that can realistically be expected -- not to mention such smaller tasks as combatting terrorism and the drug trade...
...will of Sarajevo, but it has only swelled the residents' anger. They welcome the international effort to fly in food and medicine but are worried that the relief operation is treating the symptom of shortage, not the cause. What Sarajevans want above all else is to see the aggressor routed. "A necessary evil" is Bosnia-Herzegovinian Defense Minister Jerko Doko's blunt term for the United Nations' hard-won airlift. "I wish the airport hadn't been opened in this way, because it has actually slowed down the liberation of Sarajevo...
...male actors spoke about fear that they would be seen only in the role of the aggressor. They pointed out that men can also be victimized by the rape of women when that woman is a sister, a mother, a girlfriend. Looking at it from that perspective, as Daniela Raz suggests, "It doesn't have to be women against men [in fighting date rape]. It can be victims and lovers of victims against victimizers and perpetrators...