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...have to care. Maybe it could have been counted on to keep its word a generation ago, when combating Colombia's epic social inequalities was still its primary objective. But today the FARC, which controls a mammoth swath of southern Colombia, is widely considered to be a ruthless mafia that earns as much as $1 billion a year via ransom kidnapping and protecting the country's cocaine trade. The U.S. State Department has listed both the FARC and Colombia's right-wing paramilitary armies as terrorist groups...
Edward Cole (Nicholson) is a mean old plutocrat, four times divorced, estranged from his daughter, laying down ruthless rules for the hospitals he owns. Far down the money scale, but superior in all others ways, is Carter Chambers (Morgan Freeman), a polymath mechanic, faithful to his wife of 45 years, settled into a lifelong routine of diminished expectations. The only blemish on Carter's record: He smokes. In any movie directed by antitobacco activist Rob Reiner, a cigarette has to be a leading indicator of death...
...move directly against al-Qaeda and get these terrorists." Meles says, "U.S. air assets were used for bombing on two occasions." The first attack was on the night of Jan. 7, after U.S. special-operations forces picked up intelligence that Fazul and Aden Hashi Ayro--a notorious and ruthless Afghanistan-trained militia leader--were riding in a convoy close to Ras Kamboni. According to an Ethiopian officer who was present, a local herdsman was paid to walk past the convoy and drop an electronic beam, which guided the air strike. Ayro was wounded. Initial media reports said Fazul was dead...
...complexity to oft-cited terrorist stereotypes. From the very first chapter, Gannon’s thesis is clear: The failure of Afghanistan is the failure of West. She accuses Western governments—and the United States in particular—of driving Afghanistan into chaos by permitting the ruthless mujahideen warlords to take control and refusing to work with even moderate factions of the Taliban. Initially, her portrayal of the mujahideen as ruthlessly bloodthirsty, the United States as laughably ignorant, and the international community as brutally uncaring seems harsh. But her seemingly sweeping generalizations gradually become more concrete...
...Myung Bak is a ruthless profiteer who has no concern for the environment. His companies have indiscriminately covered great areas of land with massive apartment buildings. He is only trying to work his way into the American limelight to further his goal of being the next President of South Korea. Patricia Ko, GIMPO, SOUTH KOREA...