Word: resister
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...resist aggression on one's own behalf and to come to the aid of a victim of aggression: these are the classic just causes of warfare, good reasons for deciding to fight." Fine But clearly there are other reasons for deciding not to fight. In the present Iraqi conflict, for example, we have not opened a second front to liberate Lithuania, a nation with more of an identity and as much victim status as Kuwait. The cost would be too great...
...United State's effort to repeal the pyschologically damaging 1975 United Nations resolution equating zionism with racism. Finally and most important, Bush must recognize that a Palestinian state filled with people like the blood-thirsty demonstrators in Lebanon and Jordan could hardly promote American interests. He must continue to resist linkage between the Gulf War and the Palestinian question and must insist that no international conference take place without serious assurances for broad-ranging, all-inclusive Arab-Israeli peace...
...More immediately, Iraq and the Iraqi military establishment will escape destruction. But unless you withdraw from Kuwait completely and without condition, you will lose more than Kuwait. You may be tempted to find solace in the diversity of opinion that is American democracy. You should resist any such temptation. Diversity ought not to be confused with division. Nor should you underestimate, as others have before you, America's will...
...will be asked, now that the fighting has started, to cease our questioning and our protests and to rally around the president for the sake of the troops. Resist. Now more than ever it is time to protest--for the sake of the troops and the people of Iraq--for with every passing moment, more blood is being shed...
...cope with what has happened," says Hasan al-Ebraheem, "many have come to think of this time as a temporary setback, like an earthquake. Psychologically, people will want to recreate the past as exactly as they can in order to forget what has happened. That is what we must resist. This is a golden opportunity, the invasion's silver lining. If we give in to sentiment and let the old ways come back while saying that we'll reach the hard issues later, we will never reach them...