Word: restraint
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...took all my restraint not to explode with anger after reading the article on the Baghdad Country Club [May 7]. Cheers to all of the contract workers who get to enjoy themselves with cigars and cocktails after a long day of earning bloated salaries under the protection of allied troops. The contractors' fear of not having beer delivered is tremendously stressful and surely the need to unwind is well deserved. But they can rest assured that the Country Club is secure, thanks to the many young soldiers fighting beyond the walls of the Green Zone. Those soldiers, I would...
...forces. Even among those predisposed to support the West, the mounting loss of life is engendering anger that undermines any gains that might come from killing enemies such as Dadullah. In the end, draining the appeal of the insurgency will require not more troops but more money, patience and restraint. Those are the kinds of things that can't be delivered in a commando raid, or captured in a photo...
...have been killed in terror attacks over the years, including six killed by Qassams - knows what should be done. "The government needs to tell Palestinian terrorists, 'If another Qassem falls, we will do this and this and this,' " he said. The government has made a mistake by showing restraint against in order to avoid killing innocent Palestinians, he said. "There only two options: Do you want innocent people killed on this side, or do you want innocent people killed on that side?" Unfortunately, that's just the kind of moral quandary Hamas wants Israel...
...note accompanying Sorry, Jones refers to the 1997 Human Rights Commission report that recorded the removal of thousands of indigenous children from their families, and to Australian Prime Minister John Howard's refusal to apologize for the actions of previous governments. In a novel of such resonance and restraint, this epilogue strikes the sole forced note. For Australian readers, at least, the title carries enough emotional weight to speak volumes, and Jones is too subtle and cerebral a writer to suggest a polemical reading of her text. Instead, Sorry is most eloquent expressing a more singular kind of sorrow, while...
...Some of that car-burning did take place in the vast housing projects that ring most French cities, but the vast majority of those suburbs have remained relatively calm since Sunday, even as youths from France's more well-heeled cities went berserk. That restraint in the projects wasn't out of any respect for the President-elect, however...