What started out as some eyeroll-worthy jabs in the #MoreThanMean video quickly escalated into offensive declarations.
Scores of people had logged on to message boards to balance the offensive remarks with declarations of their own disgust for anti-Semitism.
That was all part of a charm offensive calibrated with his declaration that his Nets were suddenly as dashing a suitor as any for LeBron James, among others, last summer.
It was a political offensive against the West, a declaration of the "international civil war," not the start of an invasion of the West.
The Syrian army's declaration of the offensive coincided with international meetings on Syria in New York, the latest diplomatic efforts officially intended to revive the truce, which was brokered by the United States and Russia.
A senior US official said that news of the Syrian declaration of a new offensive had reached the ministers during the meeting and further undermined hope of restoring the ceasefire.
It announced its offensive into Iraq in June with declarations it had summarily killed nearly 2,000 Shia soldiers from the national army in Tikrit.
The declaration of atheism was deemed offensive to Islam – one of Indonesia's six official religions, together with Protestantism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Hinduism and Confucianism.
Following the Chechen war (which I predict will be wound up by election day in March), Putin's first order of business will be the declaration of an all-out offensive against corruption.
Especially if these "things" are a demand for a tax declaration, a pompously announced sports offensive or a telephone call loaded with significance.
Ms. Clinton champions multi-trillion dollar unconstitutional presidential wars or other offensive uses of the military without congressional declarations or authorizations required under Article I, section 8, clause 11.
