| Attempting to answer it by using saber-rattling to attack an amorphous axis of enemies is a great failure of leadership. |
| The administration's saber-rattling felt more like knees rattling. |
| Indeed, saber-rattling or not, we should take Ryan seriously. |
| Saber-rattling aside, the nascent advergaming concept has some real numbers attached. |
| 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. |
