It is not the time to retreat and reveal to all and sundry that we are a paper tiger.
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Rather than fearing the US, Iran, Syria and North Korea behave as though the US is a paper tiger.
Our debacle in Lebanon in the early 1980s convinced Osama bin Laden and others that the U.S. was a paper tiger.
But experts say it also points out that compulsory orders, when the government resorts to them, are really a paper tiger.
Resolution authority, all three panelists agreed, is a paper tiger that will fall apart the minute it is tested in a real-life financial crisis.
It seems possible to me that the Persians were a paper tiger, capable of putting huge numbers together but relatively ineffective, even incompetent, in using them.
The Republican challenger can point out that this is seen by Beijing for what it is: the unresourced - and, therefore, meaningless - machinations of a paper tiger.
Its willingness to diminish the U.S. role to more-or-less that of any other nation, while insisting on continuing to pick up more than a fifth of the organization's tab has reduced America not just to a paper tiger but a patsy, to boot.
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As one wag put it, the PRC views us more of a pirouetting paper-tiger than a formidable foe, whose pivot represents a meaningful trategic redeployment.
After all, Kim is an adherent of the U.S.-is-a-paper-tiger school of thought.
On the wall a paper poster showed a woman draped only in a tiger skin stretched out on a Lamborghini.
When you hear paper tiger whispered in a business meeting, put your hackles up.
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