Word: aggressor
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...likely to escalate and thus "involve unacceptable risks to the national life that military forces exist to defend." The Reagan Administration, as well as some West Europeans under the American nuclear "umbrella," strongly oppose any non-first-use declaration because it would allegedly lower the perceived risks to an aggressor contemplating attack. The problem is that declaration or no declaration, a no-first-use policy is the only rational one. The question which in the long run must be addressed by the U.S. government is whether it will rely indefinitely on nuclear deterrence to preserve its interests or will adopt...
After weeks of intense negotiation, Haig had admitted failure in the U.S. effort to bring about a diplomatic settlement in the Falklands crisis. He left no doubt that the blame lay with the aggressor, Argentina, and announced that the U.S. was finally abandoning its formal stance of neutrality in the dispute. Effective immediately, the U.S. was joining 14 other Western nations in imposing some form of economic sanctions on Argentina...
...Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, to which the U.S. is a party. That pact, also known as the Treaty of Rio, stipulates that an armed attack against any one of the signatories will be considered an attack against them all and provides for various sanctions against the aggressor...
...advocates of nuclear disarmament are following precisely in the steps-of the pacifists who led us into World War I and later into World War II. Surely we have learned by now that only the military strength of the free world can stay the hand of the aggressor...
...compound Saddam's problems, Iran has set unrealistic conditions for a ceasefire: Baghdad's unconditional withdrawal, payment of massive reparations and unqualified United Nations condemnation of Iraq as the aggressor. In effect, they are a demand for Saddam's political suicide. Efforts to mediate a cease-fire by the U.N. and a council of Islamic states in recent months have met with stubborn opposition in Iran...