Word: aggressors
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...longer driven by a desire to "pay any price, bear any burden," as John Kennedy said, to ensure the liberties of others around the world. In a way, the crisis in the gulf brings together a fortuitously crass coincidence of American idealism and materialism; Americans look to punish the aggressor and protect their energy supplies at the same time...
...they were not human shields to be used in a war but a prevention against danger. "Your presence here," he told the captives, "is meant to avoid war. You are not hostages." For all the piety, he occasionally lapsed into the malign, warning that Iraq would "destroy any aggressor." After 45 minutes of playing Mr. Nice Guy, Saddam departed with a wish that he could have stayed for lunch...
...solution that preserves as many gains as possible from their conquest of Kuwait." Some experts, like Richard Murphy, a senior fellow at the New York Council on Foreign Relations, think that if such a point is reached, both sides will acquiesce. "Money will be paid to an aggressor, or land," he says, in a deal arranged by Saddam's Arab neighbors. "We're not going to devise it, we're not going to bless it. The question is if we're going to tolerate...
...laws of civility to commit such an overt, unambiguous act of aggression against a peaceful neighbor that poses no security threat whatsoever. It is rare that a victim's fortunes are so directly tied to the health of the Western economies. And it is more unusual still that the aggressor rules an all but landlocked country dependent on imports for food and on the sufferance of its neighbors to get its one significant income earner, oil, to market. "In international affairs," said a senior Bush Administration official, "it is rare that the ball is so clearly teed...
...follow suit rapidly. Multiple warheads seemed an inexpensive way to expand the U.S. nuclear force. But what strategists overlooked was the fact that the large number of warheads packed onto a small number of missiles make them a tempting target for a first strike. In a surprise attack, an aggressor could knock out as many as ten or more warheads by hitting a single silo. Says Senate Armed Services Committee chairman Sam Nunn, who strongly supports the Bush proposal: "I can see a regime on both sides where we have single-warhead missiles in silos. There is no reason...