Word: brotherhood
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...transcends nationality. I am a Kuwaiti, not an Arab. As such, I refuse to sacrifice my own cause for the sake of the Palestinians who have been the founding, immaleable basis of Arab nationalism. Why must it be that the only link that has held together our fragile Arab "brotherhood" for the last 40 years has been our common Zionist "enemy...
Egypt's opposition press, which is stridently antigovernment and hostile to Mubarak's role in the coalition, has not chosen to challenge the public disgust with Saddam. Even the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood, while calling the coalition's bombing of civilians a "heinous crime," has described the Iraqi regime as "hateful" and has scorned Saddam's efforts to lead a jihad against the West...
...human qualities: self-lessness, heroism, sacrifice and comradeship. In time of war, soldiers throw themselves on grenades to save their buddies. Civilians willingly endure hardships that they would never accept in peacetime. Even anti-war author Erich Maria Remarque, in All Quiet on the Western Front, praised the "great brotherhood...arising out of the midst of danger, out of the tension and forlorness of death...
...King Hussein mounts a last-ditch effort for peace, he is sporting a silvery new beard. Some of the King's subjects believe he is trying to appear more pious as the gulf conflict heats up. Just after Hussein grew the beard, he appointed members of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood to his Cabinet, thereby including that group in the government for the first time. Others see the beard's purpose differently, concluding that months of fruitless diplomacy have caused the King's stress-induced skin rash to act up again...
Neither Bush nor any of his governing brotherhood -- Baker, Cheney, Powell, Scowcroft, Sununu -- were at the Tuesday luncheons in the 1960s when a swaggering Johnson thumped a map with his forefinger and unleashed massive American power -- only to fail. Many of the current members of Congress were in grade school when the Vietnam commitment climbed to 540,000 troops. Some of the television reporters now graphically describing the Iraqi commitment on the nightly news were not even born back then. This is a time to let history speak and then to listen to its warnings...