Bosnia is to the U.N. what Ethiopia was to the League of Nations: the moment of truth at which the world body flinched, inviting greater aggression elsewhere later.

She remembered words her father had spoken - Fear invites aggression; do not show it to a predator - and felt emboldened.

Victims invite aggression.

She remembered words her father had spoken-Fear invites aggression; do not show it to a predator-and felt emboldened.

Otherwise, he said, the United States would be perceived as weak and would invite further Communist aggression, which could touch off nuclear wars.

The exact same strategy in Libya is being employed in Syria: organise an armed insurrection, invent a bloodbath via the media, and invite foreign aggression.

Yet conciliation, already tried by France and by Mr. Reagan in trading arms for hostages, seems only to invite further Iranian aggression.

Appeasement invites aggression.

Experimentation, strategic maneuvering, and a significant amount of financial mismanagement produced a weak and divided country, which seemed not only to invite external aggression but to make it irresistible.

We know it would only invite further aggression and tragedy.