| The saber-rattling of his partner, the blustery Capt. |
| Indeed, saber-rattling or not, we should take Ryan seriously. |
| Many writers warn the war of words and saber-rattling could lead to military action. |
| Attempting to answer it by using saber-rattling to attack an amorphous axis of enemies is a great failure of leadership. |
| But if the threats and saber-rattling are going to be effective, Chamillionaire has to take his burnished, easy flow and start putting some specifics in it. |
| Sanctions and saber-rattling alone were never going to do the trick, nor would periodic efforts at one-shot diplomacy. |
