Word: innocentsã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...always healthy or helpful. For 40 years prior to 9/11, the most munificent global funder of terrorism was not Iran or Iraq but the U.S. Irish-American organizations channeled millions of dollars into the Irish Republican Army, extremists responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocents??both Catholic and Protestant—as well as soldiers and police, in the north, south, and the British mainland. Lured by hand-me-down sentiment, Irish Americans unwittingly paid for every soldier killed, every “traitor” disappeared, every British city center bombed, and every brutal...
During his time in the Secretariat, he has hardly proved a competent official willing to take political chances to save innocents?? lives. As head of the U.N.’s peacekeeping operations, his intentionally muddled directives made for confusion amidst blue helmets in Bosnia, leaving them unable to militarily defend towns that were designated as “safe zones.” His failure to clarify this language, even after he was asked to by several commanders, led Dutch peacekeepers in Srebrenica to simply stay inside their barracks, rather than stop the Bosnian Serb military from...
...most people were running out of the Twin Towers, the rescue personnel were sprinting in. These firefighters and police were not innocents??they are paid and expected to go out and put their lives on the line, in situations like this, every day. But that only makes their sacrifice more impressive and sublime. They consciously and deliberately offered their assistance to those trapped inside, well aware of the potential consequences for themselves and their families. They did so without duress; they did so without hesitation...
| 1 |