Word: deterred
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...makes eminent sense for Israel to announce now that it will strike back—to do otherwise would only encourage Iraq to attack. But if that is not sufficient to deter Saddam Hussein from attacking, then the U.S. should support Israel’s right to a retaliatory strike if necessary. Again, as in 1991, the Bush administration’s main concern is that retaliation would harm the coalition for war against Iraq. It would not only inflame Arab-Israeli tensions, but it also could prevent the U.S. military from gaining the cooperation it needs from Arab states...
...carnival popcorn machines spewed the overwhelming smell of cooking canola oil and rows of port-a-potties stood ready to receive hundreds of impatient movie-goers. It was University President Lawrence H. Summers’ latest wholesome activity for the Harvard community: Movie Time. Even intermittent rain could not deter the fanatics, who regard watching Ferris Bueller to be a religious experience (especially when Matthew Broderick showers), the bored, who opted not to do their tutorial reading and, of course, the inevitable free-loader types who came for the free junk food...
...within the Chinese military now accept that it might take two decades to catch up with the U.S., so China has adopted a more pragmatic approach. In the short term, it increasingly views military force as a political tool to drag Taiwan into negotiations on Beijing's terms and deter the U.S. from interfering. "The question the Chinese are asking now," says a Western military attach? in Beijing, "is can they achieve their goals before the Americans have a chance to intervene by using a rapid, limited action...
...that rely on defense, focus on reducing our vulnerabilities and include the option of pre-emptive attack. It is not fear of attack from Iraq that moves the Bush Administration to seek a regime change there and to threaten a first strike. After all, the U.S. was able to deter the Soviet Union; it should not have much trouble deterring Iraq. The real fear is that such an enemy may seek to coerce the U.S. by passing weapons of mass destruction to a virtual state such as al-Qaeda, which cannot be deterred...
...worth looking at what happened the night the government moved Padilla, because it's part of a larger change in American society since Sept. 11. Six weeks after the World Trade Center fell, Congress passed the U.S.A. Patriot Act, which was designed "[t]o deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world, to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools, and for other purposes." The legislation gave Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft a license to expand the scope of their authority, and they have used their new powers, plus a few old ones, to detain more...