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NUSSEIBEH: There needs to be a voice that will be raised to call on people to use their reason. This is the major issue, now that events are basically leading us into a trap of insanity, a whirlpool of vicious acts and bloodletting. Listening to the radical rhetoric on both sides now is terrifying. People need to be made to take decisions about the issues that seem irresolvable and which have become more entrenched during the intifadeh...
...others. These terrorists do not seek freedom from domination. They would like to deny others liberty, and seek glory in death. They hate us for our virtues, for our success, our free spirit, our benevolence and our innocence. We are dealing with the worst form of envy, the most vicious form of evil--human evil that will not be appeased. ROGER PARIAN Savannah...
...heap of history”—Bush vowed that murderous terror organizations would end up “in history’s unmarked grave of discarded lies.” He distinctly laid out the moral and practical purposes of our retaliation against these vicious factions...
...Rather than seeking to resolve the question ahead of time, the U.S. and its European allies have sought instead to forge consensus among the various anti-Taliban factions over a process for determining a future government. Rather than Rabbani - whose tenure is remembered as an era of corruption and vicious civil war in which tens of thousands of civilians were killed as rival factions battled for control of the capital - the West has enlisted the help of the former king, Zahir Shah, who has been living in the suburbs of Rome since being deposed in a 1973 coup. Western strategy...
...scripture known as the Koran to the Arabs in the early 7th century A.D., a major part of his mission was devoted precisely to bringing an end to the kind of mass slaughter we witnessed in New York City and Washington. Pre-Islamic Arabia was caught up in a vicious cycle of warfare, in which tribe fought tribe in a pattern of vendetta and countervendetta. Muhammad himself survived several assassination attempts, and the early Muslim community narrowly escaped extermination by the powerful city of Mecca. The Prophet had to fight a deadly war in order to survive, but as soon...