Word: blitzkrieg
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...case of Saddam, the name-calling is far from preposterous. He has unleashed a blitzkrieg against a weak country on his border and committed mass murder -- using poison gas, no less -- on Iraq's Kurdish minority. But there is nonetheless something pernicious about the analogy. Regardless of how those making the comparison try to qualify its implications, there is a danger that many of their readers and listeners will, at least subliminally, take the point to its invidious extreme: Saddam equals Hitler, ergo Arabs equal Nazis. As a brutalizing corollary, the forces fighting the Jewish state, from P.L.O. commandos...
...country by force -- and, with help from Moscow, strong enough to dare it -- North Korea sent its tanks south across the 38th parallel on June 25, 1950. Communist leader Kim Il Sung hoped to destroy the U.S.-backed regime of South Korean President Syngman Rhee in a bold blitzkrieg. Kim nearly succeeded before U.S. troops and a hastily assembled United Nations force pushed the North Koreans back to the Yalu River on the Chinese border, prompting the intervention of a 1.2 million-man Chinese army that ultimately brought the conflict to a stalemate. After three years of battle...
Germans are hardworking and successful. But they are not loved. They are respected. But they are not liked. Now nearly 17 million will be added, and those who recall the past say, "Ah, Kohl is trying to speed things up." They call it "Kohl's blitzkrieg." You have to live with that. I cannot deny our history; I have to accept it. If I meet a Jewish countryman whose family was killed at Auschwitz and who knows German but refuses to speak it, I have to respect that. I can only ask for forgiveness; I have no claim...
Bill Cleary watched with dismay as Cornell (16-9-3) completed its quarterfinal sweep of the Crimson (13-14-1) with a 4-2 blitzkrieg to knock Harvard out of the ECAC playoffs...
Generals and admirals for centuries have been notorious for planning to fight the last war. American military men are no different; for 45 years they have prepared for a Soviet version of the blitzkrieg. Panama, Grenada, Libya, even Korea and Viet Nam were all essentially sideshows. The Big One, if it ever came, would begin with the Warsaw Pact's tank and armored columns charging across the Fulda Gap into West Germany, starting a conflict that could escalate to a nuclear Armageddon. The effort to deter or defeat a Soviet invasion of Western Europe shaped almost everything about...