Word: buffers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is what is meant by letting the military situation "play itself out." Such cool foreign-policy analysis rarely takes into account the suffering of people like Neh Kon and Top Sakhan. Nowhere is this truer than in Cambodia, whose modern misfortune has been to act as buffer and bargaining chip to nations more powerful than itself. Like Blanche DuBois, modern Cambodia has always depended for its survival on the kindness of strangers -- and the strangers have not always been kind. While diplomats negotiated their shameful and shameless deals, Cambodians were paying a fearful price: hundreds of thousands died between...
...decades, as the baby boomers turn geriatric and the rest of society has to bear the enormous burden of caring for them in what is likely to be an era of dwindling resources. At that point, the mutual understanding gained from present-day initiatives may provide a crucial buffer to bitter generational conflicts...
...slice of southern Finland; by making a deal with the Germans, he once again annexed the Baltic states. Then, after repelling the Nazi invasion, he established the Red Army in occupied East Germany in 1945, moved the Polish frontiers some 200 miles to the West and established a buffer zone of Communist satellites all across Central Europe. When China too went Communist in 1949, Stalin could claim suzerainty over the largest empire since that of the Mongols. And though nobody realized it then, it was just as doomed...