Word: aggressors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sharp begins with the premise that it is desirable to get the United States and other large powers out of entangling defense pacts with weaker nations. The way to do this, he suggests, is to provide every country with a way of defending itself against aggressor nations. Obviously, nonviolent civilian defense is less costly and thus more suitable than military defense. Sharp assumes throughout this discussion that a weak country is being invaded by a tyrant nation which must be resisted by the citizens. What he unfortunately fails to explain, however, is how this theory would apply to Vietnam...
...invasion model. In the domestic cases, the opposition is an established system, the status quo, rather than a new invader. Perhaps the most important result of this difference is that changing domestic conditions, because of their long-term nature, will seem far less urgent than fighting an outside aggressor...
...expect legal judgment on such issues. Beyond that, clearly, none of those men are open to Nuremberg charges of "crimes against peace" and "crimes against humanity." All sought quite the opposite ends in Viet Nam, and intent is crucial in law. All believed that the U.S. was repelling an aggressor, upholding the Nuremberg principles and fighting a "just war" ?the kind defined by St. Thomas Aquinas as aimed at "a good to be affected or an evil to be avoided." All sincerely believed that their policies would save lives and shorten the war. They turned out to have chosen...
...vacation date. In Jerusalem, a newly arrived photographer from Moscow hesitated when TIME Correspondent Marlin Levin bought him Coca-Cola at an outdoor café. "It was a reflex action," the photographer explained sheepishly. "In the Soviet Union, Coca-Cola is the archsymbol of the imperialist and the aggressor. But here in Israel it's safe to be an aggressor, no?" He drank the Coke...
...years of existence, NATO has always had the rich kid's problem: it carries plenty of big bills but is forever short of small change. U.S. nuclear warheads have protected the alliance's 14 other members against the doomsday stockpile of any potential aggressor, but the problem has been with less powerful armaments...