Word: protectant
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...Ground Zero--who said they still could not believe this could possibly have happened. We wobble between resolve and despair; the lines between prudence and paranoia blur. A three-year-old boy in Spotsylvania, Va., fatally shot himself with the gun his father had just brought home to protect his family...
...Kalashnikov rifle (price: $120) and warned, "In our culture, we give our baby son an unloaded pistol to play with in the cradle, so that he becomes acquainted with guns. Every man and boy will defend bin Laden and the Taliban against America. It would be dishonorable not to protect him." Among Musharraf's first tasks in coming weeks will be to ensure the support of Pakistan's 587,000-strong armed forces. Many lower-ranking officers, incensed at the corruption of their superiors over the years, have fallen under the sway of extremists who advocate a Taliban-style cleansing...
...second part of this argument is that politicians, and especially our president, are elected to protect the safety and interests of the American people. This is the “I’m running on my platform” argument. Ostensibly, since we elected Bush on a platform of things he pledged to do, we can have reasonable expectations of what he will do. And, since we put our faith in him not only as a man of ideas and vision, but also as a man of character and wisdom, we have entrusted him with our safety...
...troops, for instance, and to engage in high-level diplomatic talks. But it never relieves him of his responsibility to tell the American people what he is doing. If we aren’t a nation of democratic citizens, then he does not have much of a nation to protect, and such a nation cannot exist if its citizens do not have access to information about their government’s policies and plans...
Edgar, his mother and brother said goodbye to his father and traveled covertly to the beach through the scrub, watching and listening for rebel soldiers positioned to spy for civilians escaping the country. When they finally got to the beach, the Edgar family met snipers who were poised to protect them as they ran for the boat. “I honestly thought I would never see him [my father] again,” Edgar says, “and I felt worried and guilty at the same time about leaving...