"We need to refrain from demonizing those who bully, and come to terms with the troubling fact that in certain cases the aggressor and target may be one and the same".
"Qantas is more likely to be the aggressor than a target airline," said Ian Thomas, senior consultant at CAPA Consulting, an aviation advisory firm.
In doing so, the BBC are subtly indoctrinating the minds of its viewers through implicit suggestion that Israel is the aggressor, almost randomly targeting Gaza.
"More often than not when you get this focused, targeted aggressor, you're not going to get compliance within one shot," Wyant said.
Being swept up in a storm of unified outrage, condemnation or mockery against a single individual can be detrimental to both target and aggressor.
The descriptive data provide a distinctive picture of reactive, instrumental, and bullying aggression as well as differing social norms for target and aggressor behavior in each of these 3 types of aggression.
(And when public policies didn't please them, they responded with "Days of Rage" that convulsed America). Now that Boomers are older, they're often still the aggressors, only now the target they don't trust isn't "anyone over 30"—it's anyone under 30.
"The heartbreaking irony is that the Brussels disaster was more useful for the English than it was for us, more to the advantage of the aggressors than those targeted, of more benefit to the perpetrators than the victims," he wrote.
I tried to press him on the reports of massacres perpetrated by Assad's men, which he instantly dismissed as actions of foreign aggressors or fundamentalists targeting the regime.
An essential element in successful deterrence is a degree of uncertainty on the part of a would-be aggressor as to whether the target power, although attacked and badly damaged, will nonetheless retaliate even at the risk of suffering further, crippling damage in a second attack.
