As North Korea hints at new military provocations in the coming days, the United States and South Korea have drawn up plans to respond more forcefully than in the recent past, but in a limited way intended to prevent an escalation to broader war.
WASHINGTON — As North Korea hints at new military provocations in the coming days, the United States and South Korea have drawn up plans to respond more forcefully than in the recent past, but in a limited way intended to prevent an escalation to broader war.
The strategy not only failed, it sparked fears of escalation to nuclear war.
While expressing a liberal outlook on many domestic matters, Mr. Smith surprised his supporters by calling for all-out American military escalation to end the war in Vietnam, the invasion of Laos and Cambodia and the imposition of an income-tax surcharge to finance the war.
Now is the time for Georgia and Russia to show restraint, and to avoid an escalation to full-scale war".
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"Now is the time for Georgia and Russia to show restraint and to avoid an escalation to full-scale war," Mr. Obama said in the statement, which focused on negotiations and concluded that "all sides should enter into direct talks on behalf of stability in Georgia".
"In the immediate instance, we're trying to prevent escalation that could lead to war through miscalculation," said Edward P. Djerejian, an assistant secretary of state for Near East affairs in the first Bush administration who is in touch with General Powell on Middle East questions.
Often, the primary benefit of diplomacy is in how it prevents bad actions and reduces the potential for inadvertent escalation, which can sometimes lead to war.
