Word: wiped
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...some at Harvard and in the international community claim that what is happening in Sudan is not genocide. While nobody disputes that many of the paramilitary groups funded by the Sudanese government intend to perpetrate genocide, some have claimed that the government of Sudan does not itself wish to wipe out all non-Arab Africans. If that helps you sleep at night, I suppose you can ignore the issue. I personally have trouble calming my conscience by claiming that the atrocities in Sudan are genocide in effect but not in intent...
...trained medical personnel. The number of detainees in U.S. custody is currently about 3,000. (The interim Iraqi government also houses prisoners there.) No date has been set, but the military would like to close the facility altogether, officially to avoid more insurgent attacks but, what's more, to wipe out the blot that is Abu Ghraib...
...Israel was about to hit Iran's nuclear facilities. "We will not sit with arms folded," he told the al-Jazeera network. Backing up the threat, Iran unveiled 1,300-km-range Shahab-3 missiles at a national parade in September, where one banner bore the slogan WIPE ISRAEL...
...Genocide Convention covers the actions of the janjaweed killers. Their goal is to wipe out the Darfurians as a group; they are urged on by the flames of ethnic hatred fanned by the central Sudanese government in Khartoum under President Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir...
...down doesn't teach him how to be a good democrat. The second was the tragic (or almost criminal) indifference to the deadliest problem in the affairs of nations: the gap between means and ends. Your Administration's ends were driven by cosmic ambitions: bring democracy to Iraq, wipe out Islamic terrorism, remake the Middle East. All of this with 130,000 troops who were to stay no longer than 18 months? Vast ambitions cannot be financed out of petty cash. And while clarity of vision and purpose informed the Administration's goals, it was blind when it came...