Word: protectorates
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...best interest of the United States and of the world. Nor can there be any question that removing the Taliban from power is necessary in order to achieve a lasting peace. The Taliban regime has shown itself again and again to be the sponsor, ally and protector of terrorists. With full knowledge of bin Laden’s announced intentions, the Taliban made him its guest of honor. Not only has the Taliban allowed bin Laden to train new recruits and plot anti-American attacks from his Afghan strongholds, they have defiantly stonewalled international efforts to bring bin Laden...
...myriad small villages that make up the city, the local firehouse is not just a protector but a nerve center, a town square and a hearth. JoAnn McCluskey, whose husband was with Engine 54 before his death five years ago, says, "This place was like a family. We did Christmas parties and picnics. One guy used to get on top of the building across the street and get in the cherry picker on the fire truck and be Santa." Even, or especially, for neighbors who didn't have a personal connection to the fire fighters or the victims, the station...
...water supply. Homeless refugees? Israel usurps Arab lands. Restless youth? Israels democracy is a satanic influence. The deflection of so much political dissatisfaction and so many real and escalating social problems into aggression against Israel eventually reaches fanatical proportions, fueling apocalyptic scenarios of destroying the Satan, and the protector of Satanthe United States...
...tend to go for openness and look outward in my musical searching. But recently I feel maybe an obligation to be more of a protector, a guardian, a curator almost, of traditional sounds and music, so lately I've been working that thought into my albums. However, who knows what tomorrow may bring? I may fall in love with some sound from Asia or from elsewhere, and all of a sudden my recordings may take a turn that I hadn't anticipated. You can't really program music. A musical life really shouldn't have any limits...
...events to the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, we can remember a time that we fear, but when we also had a strange sense of pride as well. After sustaining enormous damage in Pearl Harbor, America mobilized, entered World War II and molded itself into the international protector of democracy and freedom...