I don't see how any bellicose militaristic approach can keep the lid on this Pandora's Box: Iran sees itself besieged on two fronts -- by the U.S, and harangued by the international community in the form of embargo and sanctions.
Saturday, 12 34 p.m. Update: In a further illustration of how North Korea's bellicose rhetoric to the outside world can be hard to parse, Steve Herman, the Voice of America Northeast Asia bureau chief, reports that the nation's apparently dramatic declaration of "war" was "not even mentioned" in a domestic news broadcast Saturday.
Yet given Suttner's own background as a member of the Austrian aristocratic-military class, she was highly cognizant of how central the bellicose nation-state was to the identities – national, social, and gender – of her peers.
The case against selling weapons and nuclear know-how to a bellicose government argues itself.
How could such a divisive, bellicose, and heartless figure have the gall to talk like that?
In "The Bourne Identity" (and "Supremacy"), as in "The Manchurian Candidate," men are programmed to become killers, suggesting that one theme in these ambivalently bellicose times is how do you turn a nice liberal boy -- Matt Damon, Liev Schreiber -- into a murderer?
North Korea, which has used quite bellicose language, knows how seriously outnumbered it is and can no longer count on Russian or Chinese support if war were to break out.
If so, how does that explain the equally bellicose Kennedy?
I hold out hope the government might see how badly they are viewed thanks to the bellicose behaviour of senators Ian MacDonald and Barry O'Sullivan, and have them change their demeanour, but that hope is probably futile.
So in this new age of cooperation how are we to make sense of this once bellicose bromance?
