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...continually patrols the rugged region to prevent escapes. While there are occasional reports of border guards firing on refugees, this is the first time such an incident has been widely witnessed. Xinhua, China's state-run news service, quoted an unnamed official claiming that the guards were "forced to defend themselves." But Sergiu Matei, a climber and cameraman for Romania's ProTV, which later broadcast his footage of the shooting, asserts: "That was not self-defense. [The refugees] were clearly passing through Nangpa La and running from the police, who shot them like dogs...
...that basically states that Islam is a violent religion resulted in predictable-and violent-reactions in parts of the Muslim world. The irony is so glaring, it is hardly bearable. But the same type of irony can easily be found in Christianity. How much violence has been committed to defend teachings that advise turning the other cheek? It is apparent from history and current events that Christians, Muslims and Jews all believe in the same God. One can only wish he had been more consistent in advocating nonviolence. Patrik Lindenfors Nairobi...
Absolutely. It almost takes that out of the equation. It puts us in the horrible position where in order to defend against cowardly deeds, you have to behave in what has always been seen as a cowardly way yourself. You're at some checkpoint, and you see a bunch of women in a vehicle, and then all of a sudden, some guy's there with a rifle shooting away, or he blows the whole vehicle up. So what do you do? What do you do? I was never one of those who were excited about going into Iraq...
After we jousted over several other issues, Obama felt the need to step back and defend himself. "Look, when I spoke out against going to war in Iraq in 2002, Bush was at 60-65% in the polls. I was putting my viability as a U.S. Senate candidate at risk. It looks now like an easy thing to do, but it wasn't then." He's right about that: more than a few of his potential rivals for the presidency in 2008 voted, as a matter of political expediency, to give Bush the authority to use military force in Iraq...
...happen, but nature is not just and those things happen. TIME: Does that separate you, to some extent, from the Orthodox Jewish community? Kushner: I get a better reception from Mormons than I do from the Orthodox Jews. It's precisely because of that point. They feel obliged to defend God's omnipotence, irrespective of the fact that that holds God responsible for every retarded child, every flood and earthquake, every plague and everything else that happens in the world, and they have to twist themselves into all sorts of theological pretzels to explain why bad is good. TIME: What...