Word: bravado
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rebel bands continued to mount raids against the Soviets' lines of communication. One ambush in the northern Salang Pass, for example, successfully blocked a Soviet convoy of more than 200 vehicles at a 7,000-ft. altitude for almost 24 hours. Yet for all their hit-and-run bravado, it was clear that the rebels were on the defensive, and sooner or later the Soviets would have the insurgency under control. "A besieged government on the verge of collapse has been saved," an Asian military attache grudgingly allowed. "Shoring up a doomed regime obviously was the Soviets' first...
...trucks, new missiles, tough soldiers and plenty of bravado " This is peanuts," scoffed Pakistan's President, General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq. That was his ungracious comment on the report that the U.S. was set to give him $400 million over the next two years to shore up Pakistan's defenses against the potential threat posed by 80,000 Soviet troops in neighboring Afghanistan. Zia's outburst of piqued surprise was a bit unfair since the offer had already been discussed with his chief foreign affairs adviser. In fact, the U.S. was far from being stingy...
...superpower chicken, opposing Soviet aggression with U.S. resistance in a steady escalation towards open warfare. Carter's underlying assumption is that the U.S. goal is to confront the Soviet Union directly; in fact that goal should be to block Soviet expansionism. Carter should not resort to self-serving bravado that is as empty as it is dangerous. Instead Carter should seek to place the U.S. at the head of the broad-based international movement now condemning the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan by supplying arms in areas directly threatened by Soviet aggression and most importantly by espousing national sovereignty...
This journalistic ethic, the "if it's there we print it" attitude that Woodward crows so feistily, is mere bravado. In the first place, the book could conceivably hurt the court's ability to enforce its will in some important cases. Although the authors are quick to point out that they stayed away from "contemporaneous" cases, clearly the reasoning used in reaching one busing decision might affect the next such case, and it takes very little to fan the flames of anti-busing sentiment in this country. To let the chips always fall where they may probably won't hurt...