Word: punish
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...there”, he says. Edgar plans to study economics and wants to return to Sierra Leone before heading to graduate school in business. The violence in much of Freetown has subsided and the UN and neighboring African countries have been proposing various war crimes courts and tribunals to punish the men responsible for 10 years of bloodshed. On May 26th of this year, in a promising reversal of past wrongs, the RUF released 600 children, between the ages of 6 and 10 years. old who had served as ‘soldiers’ in the rebel army. With...
...immediate air strikes. But with intelligence offering nothing more than a pinprick--"We could have only made the rocks bounce," a military source says--Bush started working the phones. He called Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who refused to leave the burning Pentagon, and said they would hunt down and punish those responsible. He turned to a CIA officer and passed on a message for CIA Director George Tenet. "If Tenet has something"--such as news of another attack--"I want to hear it directly from him, not from you," Bush said. After dividing the work among his closest aides, Bush...
Without a doubt, the American people need to feel that our government is doing something swiftly. But we also need to know that we're holding the right suspects accountable. To punish the wrong people would only turn this national tragedy into an even worse disaster. I feel like all other Americans and want blood, but not that of innocent people. RICARDO GARCIA Tempe, Ariz...
...also do not understand her issue with actively finding and extensively disciplining whoever is responsible—it seems her only question is over President George W. Bush’s terminology, the less politically-correct verbs “hunt” and “punish...
...Then he set about replacing a shadowy, stateless organization with something Americans are more used to dealing with: the villainous leadership of a country, a leadership we can despise, a Milosevic, a Saddam. Someone we can threaten - and if necessary, punish - before frustration sets...