Word: mercilessness
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...Sept. 11th. Anyone deluded enough to think his interests are sufficiently different from those of the United States to justify what happened this month will find just how fierce our nation can be, and rightly so. If Afghanistan and bin Laden are behind this attack, we should bring merciless, unceasing ruin to their lives and to their land. At the same time, our allies in the region are often unstable governments battling fundamentalist oppositions in their own countries, just as dangerous as the Taliban, and we must be aware of their concerns. Unilateralism died on Sept. 11th...
...origin. The point of connection between the suburbs of Paris and Marseilles and Osama Bin Laden's Afghanistan-based networks came via Algeria. There, the military-backed government overturned elections won by the Islamists, banned their party and drove its most extreme elements underground - where they've led a merciless war of terror against politicians and citizens alike. The most notorious Algerian terror faction, the Armed Islamic Group (GIA), had been founded by men who'd fought as volunteers alongside Bin Laden in Afghanistan's anti-Soviet 'jihad.' When that war ended with the Soviet withdrawal, the men moved into...
...response to terrorism from a totally detached perspective. We are no longer removed from the terror. It has invaded our shores and wreaked havoc on our way of life. Now is the time for us to adopt the methods of our ally and stamp out terrorists in a merciless fashion. I think Sen. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) said it best: “Americans know now that we are at war, and will make the sacrifices and show the resolve necessary to prevail. I say to our enemies, we are coming. God may show you mercy. We will...
...imitate the outer forms of avant-gardism, to keep doing the new at second hand? This was the problem for South American modernists too--and in spades. The whole relation of South American art to Europe and then, after 1950 or so, to North America, was thorny and merciless to the "provincials...
...Crisis averted; chalk up another for Daniels, who has been doing this sort of thing all year. Bush, in his half-descriptive, half-self-promotional way, has nicknamed his budget chief "the Blade," and from the start Daniels? mandate was clear: be the sharp, merciless business end of his boss? conservative desire for smaller government...