Word: retreatant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will suffer from a crushing economic embargo, so every tactic is worth a try. When lies haven't worked, Saddam has revealed information, but only those facts that he knew U.N. inspectors would eventually discover on their own. Pentagon officials have come to call the ploy "cheat and retreat." Last week, in a major retreat, Baghdad confessed that it could have made the 1991 Persian Gulf War far more horrific than had been imagined...
...friend and I retreat from the battlefield. We part as friends. For days I continue our conversation in my mind...
...politically-correct answer for this broad-based retreat is that, in the post-Cold War age, we would do well to push our financial and political weight towards more pressing issues such as the advancement of our economic interests. Germany and Japan have enjoyed their outstanding economic growth, it is argued, in large part due to their non-military status; we must avoid whenever possible the exorbitant costs of international policing if we hope to partake in this prosperity. The consequences of such a policy would compromise economic and political relations as well as our strategic links abroad. Indeed, while...
...victory. Meanwhile, Tokyo had issued orders to its troops--decrypted by U.S. intelligence, which long before had broken the Japanese ciphers--that a ferocious repulsion of the invasion was necessary. "Every soldier should fight to the last moment believing in the final victory." No one would be allowed to retreat; 13 million civilians were mobilized to fight with sticks and shovels if need be. One teenage girl was told, "If you don't kill at least one enemy soldier, you don't deserve...
...Marty Peretz first came into my view when Iwrote the speech for the Madison Square Garden in1993 about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. It was thenthat he told Gore that I was an anti-Semite. Ithought 'this is so stupid,'" Marius recalled in atelephone interview from his summer retreat inTennessee...