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...ignored. Democracy is not a coalition of willing armed forces but a coalition of people. The world's problems today can be solved only by inculcating the maxim that the pen is mightier than the sword rather than the one that says power flows from the barrel of a gun. Samuel Nwankwo Madrid...
...ignored. Democracy is not a coalition of willing armed forces but a coalition of people. The world's problems today can be solved only by inculcating the maxim that the pen is mightier than the sword rather than the one that says power flows from the barrel of a gun. Samuel Nwankwo Madrid The cover picture of al-Zarqawi with a red X on his face was insensitive and frankly revolting. To revel in the death of a fellow human being, no matter how hateful to you his actions may have been, is no way to encourage the cessation...
...house. She has moved six times in the past year. "If I see a strange man in my neighborhood more than three times in a week, I know it's time to move," she says. She used to carry her AK-47 to work but was worried that the gun's silhouette under her burqa betrayed her identity. Now her Smith & Wesson pistol--a gift from coalition forces--is her only source of protection. "I want to stay and do my job," she says. "But I have an 8-year-old daughter. If the government can't protect...
...buffer zone. They argue that the 21st century will be dominated by a "war over resources," says Yury Fedorov, an expert on Russia at Chatham House in London. Its prevailing ethos will be: "If you have a lot of resources, and I need them, I may use my gun to take them." Moscow's heavy-handed interference in Ukraine's 2004 orange revolution hints at how easily discrepant views about the near abroad could flame up. The West viewed Viktor Yushchenko's victory as the triumph of people power over a malign Soviet-style government; Moscow saw an anti-Russian...
...struggled to establish legitimacy, due in part to the cutoff in Western aid to its government. The violence reached new heights last week, when Hamas gunmen fired rocket-propelled grenades at the office of the Preventive Security Force, a well-armed stronghold of Fatah militiamen, setting off a gun battle that left 20 wounded. Abbas's supporters retaliated by torching the parliament and cabinet buildings controlled by the Hamas government. In Gaza, bearded Hamas fighters in tight black t-shirts stacked sandbags on street corners for machine-gun posts and took up sniper positions atop buildings. Across the street, Fatah...