Counterthreats

And so by the time the Israeli jets reached the northeast corner of Syria and turned toward the Syrian reactor on the Euphrates, threats and counterthreats may well have been zapping through the ether and suddenly both nuclear superpowers with approximately five thousand land-based nuclear missiles on “hair-trigger” alert were on the verge of—only one misperception or hasty overreaction, one degree of separation away—being drawn into a potential regional nuclear war. ❋ Ron Rosenbaum (2011)

For chrissake Nixon was drunk during the Yom Kippur whirlwind the 1973 Egyptian invasion of Israel in which threats and counterthreats of nuclear intervention rocketed between Israel, Cairo, Washington, and Moscow. ❋ Ron Rosenbaum (2011)

The Cold War ended not with the clash of armies on fields of battle or navies at sea, but as it had been fought: through threats and counterthreats, proxy wars waged through client states, and diplomatic maneuvers. ❋ Col. Matthew Moten (2011)

The violence, the bombings, the threats and counterthreats are all the more exhausting and senseless because they are, essentially, an elaborate delaying tactic. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When the saloonkeepers protested Bergh would shout them down, and if they made counterthreats he would wave his silver-headed walking stick like a war club until the bar manager backed down. ❋ STANLEY COREN (2002)

Threats and counterthreats, bluffs and actions aside, Benson, Farr & West were making progress on the CP roadbed between Ogden and Monument. ❋ STEPHEN E. AMBROSE (2000)

Timothy Stamps said: "I want negotiations to continue in an atmosphere of peace and not in an atmosphere of threats and counterthreats." ❋ Unknown (1996)

Moreover, many of them risk negotiators becoming hostile, making threats and counterthreats, and the escalation of the conflict. ❋ DAVID A. LAX (1986)

Many claiming tactics involve distorting information and risk inferior agreements, impasses, threats, counterthreats, and conflict. ❋ DAVID A. LAX (1986)

Instead of negotiating the same details or grinding through the same script of strikes, lockouts, threats, and counterthreats again and again, all parties could be served by a single round of negotiations. ❋ Unknown (1983)