...face of brutality simply invites more brutality"; (3) that the national interest was at stake because "all the ingredients for a major war are there: ancient...and in the center of it all a dictator in Serbia"; (4) that a refusal to act would "discredit NATO, the cornerstone on which our security has rested for...

...smaller countries struggling with their own economic and political challenges, countries that would be overwhelmed by a large new wave of refugees from...Kosovo. All the ingredients for a major war are there. ... If we learned anything from the century drawing to a close, it is that if America is going to be...

...that seem to require some form of metaphorical processing in (31) are the highlighted ones below: (31) All the ingredients for a major war are there: ancient grievances, struggling democracies, and (31') in the center of it all a dictator in Serbia (31") who has done nothing since the Cold War ended...

...himself, using the rhetoric of a movie review, book proposal, or blurb, described the war like this: "All the ingredients for a major war are there. Ancient grievances, struggling democracies, and, at the center of it all, a dictator in Serbia who has done nothing since the Cold War ended but start...

...that seem to require some form of metaphorical interpretation (31) are the emholdened ones helow; (31) All the ingredients for a major war are there: ancient grievances, struggling democracies, and (31') in the centre of it all a dictator in Serhia (31 ) who has done nothing since the Cold War ended...

...East, at the meeting place of Islam and both the western and orthodox branches of Christianity . . . All the ingredients for a major war are there: Ancient grievances, struggling democracies, and at the centre of it all, a dictator in Serbia who has done nothing since the cold war ended but start...