Word: weaknessness
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Without concrete proof of guilt, both world opinion and Americans' own moral sense would make overt military action. Yet increasing support to their enemies (such as Iraq, which is bogged down in war with Iran) would finally make Iran and Syria understand the costs of sponsoring or aiding terrorist attacks...
Despite its weakness on that score, the Jaruzelski government also has some grounds for optimism. The regime gained considerable confidence from the turnout at the June 17 regional and local elections, in which, according to official figures, some 75% of the voters went to the polls, despite calls for a...
Furthermore, Goldwater said, "it has been the foreign policy and defense weakness of Democrat Administrations that have led us to war in the past," thus reviving an old, seldom used Republican charge that a Democrat was in the White House at the start of every war fought by the U.S...
Reagan was definitely on the offensive when, in a recent speech stuffed with the land of provocative language he calls "raw meat," he slashed at the Democrats. "Those responsible for punishing America with record inflation, record interest rates, record tax increases ... farm embargoes, gas lines ... weakness abroad and phony excuses...
According to disaffected Iranian officials, the decision to mine the Red Sea is an aspect of the terrorism to which Iran is resorting in the face of military weakness and domestic troubles. The country confronts increasing difficulty in buying arms on the world market, partly because the U.S. has made...