Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...purely passive defense does not provide enough of a deterrent to terrorism and the states that sponsor it. It is time to think long, hard and seriously about more active means of defense--defense through preventive or pre-emptive actions against terrorist groups before they strike...
...most powerful totalitarian state of our time is also the principal supporter and sponsor of international terrorism. In the late 1960s, Soviet theorists began to emphasize the 'armed road' as the way to achieve power in the western hemisphere. They have set about supporting terrorist groups in this hemisphere. These technicians in violence and propaganda are called national liberation movements...
...violence as the preferred method of political action. Since the 1970s, the U.N. General Assembly has passed numerous resolutions asserting its support for the right of 'national liberation movements' to 'struggle by all means . . . to achieve power.' It has consistently condemned countries for attempting to defend themselves against terrorist violence. The distinction between legitimate and illegitimate use of force has not so much been blurred as stood on its head...
...explosive above and beyond the call of sanity, the idea of using a small explosive just to gain entry is strategically sound. If it had worked, if it had dislodged the armored bunker on top of the row house, the whole thing might have ended a swift, successful anti-terrorist strike...
Meanwhile, NATO commander Bernard Rogers said yesterday there is "indisputable evidence" at least one fatal bombing was the work of a terrorist network set up by the Libyan strongman...