Word: emboldening
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...Lebanon, the Israelis bought nothing but breathing space by their assault. They sought to destroy the military core of the P.L.O., and they may succeed. But the Israeli invasion is also likely to embolden the most militant factions of the P.L.O. Instead of feeling quashed, they may now have been provided with a new rationale for terrorism. Nor will an Israeli victory in Lebanon settle the issue of a place for the Palestinians to live. The U.S. position is not greatly enhanced by all this either. It has the perennial task of proving to the Arab states that...
...Administration is concerned that the Soviets' superior civil defense system could embolden them in a nuclear showdown. According to the CIA, the Soviets spend an estimated $2 billion a year on civil defense and have 100,000 trained personnel. In addition they have 15,000 blast shelters to protect 110,000 government leaders and key industrial workers and fully developed plans to evacuate urban areas. With a week's warning of a nuclear attack, the CIA says, the Soviets could now save 90% of their population...
...involvement, and in fact did so. What he refused to do was to doom to a bloody Communist tyranny millions who had relied upon us. He believed that abject failure would vindicate neo-isolationist trends at home. He was convinced that an America so weakened would dishearten allies and embolden adversaries. And he was proved right. The collapse in 1975 not only led to genocidal horrors in Indochina, but from Angola to Iran to Afghanistan it ushered in a period of American humiliation, an unprecedented Soviet geopolitical offensive and pervasive crisis...
...squads that the junta has been unable to control (see following story). White argued that the junta had crushed the guerrillas' "final offensive" in January "without one cartridge coming from the U.S." The military aid, he said, would fall into the hands of the death squads and possibly embolden rightists to stage a coup, oust the junta and set up a regime of bloody repression...
...were again misunderstanding Iranian society. Says Sepehr Zabith, a research associate at the Institutes of International Studies at the University of California at Berkeley: "Each of the measures of accommodation that the U.S. took was viewed in Iran as a sign of weakness and of desperation. They served to embolden Khomeini, and the net result was that Khomeini was reinforced in his belief that he could impose his terms...