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...prepared to use that awareness, too, warning the Europeans that without a missile shield the U.S. might be forced to launch a preemptive strike against a rogue state. Then again, he gave the Europeans little reason to believe the U.S. would deploy a system of sufficient reliability to deter it from launching a preemptive strike anyway, just to be on the safe side. "A system of defense need not be perfect, but the American people must not be left completely defenseless," he said. Think about that one for a moment: Allowing for any margin of error in the functioning...
...insist that its troop numbers be reduced?even though the U.S. accounts for less than 20% of the total peacekeeping force in the Balkans?and will move toward a burden-sharing arrangement in which the U.S. maintains a token presence on the ground but provides the military backup to deter aggression. Says Sean Sullivan, an American nato official in Kosovo: ?The line that is being formulated is that America?s ability to lead in the Balkans is not tied to its troop presence...
...attitude," says Sushko, who began the year by issuing as many as 40 citations a day for inappropriate dress. Tonya's mother Michelle Steed thinks the school's approach is draconian. "Tonya is making an attempt to go to school, and it's like they are trying to deter her by checking her every day," she says...
Getting busted by HUPD may seem a harsh penalty for these novices. On the upside, it may deter a few of them from actually going through with the whole initiation process. If getting punched meant a booze cruise, a cocktail party and an interview with the ad board, perhaps fewer nice guys would be willing to make the plunge...
...team had irony-watchers cackling when they took a state Supreme Court to federal courts for a scolding, but all they really wanted was to keep their victory in the hands of Florida's elected officials. And the convenient fact that those officials are staunchly Republican shouldn't deter the Supreme Court from doing its job: helping a confused country find the bottom line...