In fact, NATO s retreat is expected to embolden jihadists in the region and beyond it to stage transnational attacks.

And they might embolden other Arab peoples, as may be happening in Egypt, to force accountability upon their rulers.

Better to cut and run than stay and die, and who is to say that the result will embolden Taliban terrorists?

Even if it does, a nuclear Iran may trigger an arms race in the region and embolden an Iranian government that already supports extremist movements throughout the Middle East.

Moreover, an expanding view of greater China implies that a resolution of the dispute over the Senkaku Diaoyu Islands in China s favor would be likely to embolden rather than satisfy its ambitions.

Any delay to the treaty, however, will embolden those in Moscow who would rather have the West as an enemy than as a partner and who thus would like to see the tenuous progress made in recent months to be undone.

Moreover, an expanding view of greater China implies that a resolution of the dispute over the Senkaku Diaoyu Islands in China s favor would be likely to embolden rather than satisfy its ambitions. Making good on its claim to the South China Sea could be next.