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And hence if Congress defeats the Clinton administration's proposal to pony up $18 billion for the IMF, the Asian economic players will be at least confused and possibly hostile.
Did these defeats irreparably harm our credibility and propel would-be aggressors to believe that the United States would never fight?
There is no irony of statement intended here, yet the sentence neatly defeats its purpose.
The fact that this "radicalization" is seen to have taken place at many different points of his career--after the suicide of Raubal, after the allegedly "spontaneous" violence of Kristallnacht , after the almost supernatural ease of the first victories on the Western front, after the first defeats in the Soviet invasion--is testimony to its weakness.
•264–241Rome defeats Carthage (now Tunisia) in First Punic War