Word: warred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hizballah, so I cannot answer this question as an involved person, but I can speak as an observer. There is no major change in strategy, but there is a change in approach, caused by the phase that Iran is now entering. The previous phase was one of war and building the Revolution. The current phase is one of peace and rebuilding the country. The conditions put forward by Rafsanjani for restoring relations with the U.S. are the same ones he put forward during the life of the Imam ((Khomeini)). They are that America should stop its aggressive policy against Iran...
...Bush Administration is upping the ante. In addition to pulling out of Cambodia, Viet Nam must contribute to what Washington calls a comprehensive settlement of the civil war the departing occupiers leave behind. By the Administration's definition, that requires the inclusion of the murderous Khmer Rouge in a coalition, along with two non-Communist Cambodian factions and the current Vietnamese-backed rulers in Phnom Penh...
...Vietnamese think they know why. A joke is making the rounds in Hanoi: Viet Nam has done everything it can to lure the Americans to open an embassy there, and nothing has worked; the only option left is to declare war on the U.S., then immediately surrender and count on the beneficence that Americans show those they have defeated...
Whatever blame the Vietnamese bear for the collapse of diplomacy and the prospect of new bloodshed in their region today, they are unquestionably responsible for the only war the U.S. ever lost. "That war cleaves us still," said George Bush in his Inaugural Address. "But, friends, surely the statute of limitations has been reached. The final lesson of Viet Nam is that no great nation can long afford to be sundered by a memory." Like Palmerston's, those were wise words. But the Administration has yet to apply the lesson to Viet Nam itself...
...budget is hammered out. In the next four weeks, Congress and the Bush Administration must raise the federal debt ceiling to $3.1 trillion, find a way to reduce next year's deficit -- on paper at least -- to $110 billion, and scrounge for funds to finance the drug war, educational reform and cleanups of the HUD mess and even of the storm-ravaged South Carolina coast...