Word: soldierism
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...That is something with which I have been engaged with the international community very seriously almost on a daily basis. Now when an engineer from America is killed on an Afghan road, reconstructing one of our roads or building a new road. Or when a soldier from Canada is killed in our country, or when an engineer from Germany or Turkey or India is killed, we should immediately think, who did that? Are these Afghans that are killing engineers that are building schools for us, that built clinics for us, that build hospitals for us? If Afghans are doing this...
...know if it was Panama or Colombia; it was all jungle. But the launch pulled up at a dock and a farmhouse materialized in the mist. I could make out the silhouettes of towering mercenaries who looked like they had been outfitted from the back pages of Soldier of Fortune magazine. On the dock, they embraced us, not out of friendship, I suspect, but to check if photographer Richard Emblyn and I were concealing pistols...
...Aviv park last Thursday, more than 40,000 people gathered to remind Prime Minister Ehud Olmert that the fierce 34-day attack on Lebanon failed to achieve one crucial goal: to free two Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hizballah militants. And a smaller but no less lethal military operation in Gaza - in which more than 200 Palestinians were killed - has yet to rescue a third Israeli soldier who was grabbed in June by Palestinian militants...
...anyone who is willing and able to open up lines of communication with the two groups behind the kidnapping. Israeli and Arab newspapers are full of often contradictory reports about possible terms for the hostages' release. The latest, as yet unconfirmed, claims that Gilad Shalit, the 18-year-old soldier seized by Palestinian militants, will soon be freed through Egyptian efforts, and in exchange Israel will began a phased release of up to 800 Palestinian prisoners...
...What Pakistan needs is compromise: between provinces, between religion and secularism, between the desire for growth and the imperative to check inflation, between us and our neighbors. But a government led by a President in a soldier's uniform has proven ill-suited to striking compromises. So we must try the alternative: a return to democracy, with its inherent horse trading, messiness, and false starts. Such a transition will not be without risk, and many Pakistanis are frightened by the potential for instability. But the alternative, a continuation of the status quo, in which our President lacks the legitimacy that...