Word: wrathful
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Some delegates blamed Osama bin Laden for Afghanistan's troubles; some still considered him a hero of the anti-Soviet jihad. Most of the bearded men in artfully folded turbans came from the same moderate, nationalist, royalist ranks. It is unlikely that many chieftains from inside Afghanistan braved Taliban wrath to come. Nowhere sat a member of the Northern Alliance. Nor did a single so-called moderate Taliban attend. From Kabul, Taliban spokesmen jeered that the gathering was a bunch of self-seekers out to pocket American dollars. Even Zahir Shah, who stood to benefit most, inexplicably failed to send...
...Americans don't fear the wrath of protesters. It is those who carried out the heinous attack who must face the rage of the world." ROBERT SOLOMON New York City...
...Afghans still don't understand what this war is really about. They can't comprehend the enormity of what happened on Sept 11, nor why our wrath has fallen on them. Remember: the Talibans don't believe in TV or newspapers. Afghans haven't seen those horrifying images of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. An aid worker friend was in Afghanistan at the time, trying to explain the dimensions of the calamity to Afghans. "They couldn't understand what the fuss was about. They thought the World Trade Center was a few shops at a caravan crossing...
...current flurry of diplomatic activity as an opportunity to rescue the country from internal stagnation and external threat. Many, particularly those who recall the war with Iraq, fear a belligerent stance will make Iran - still on the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism - a target of renewed U.S. wrath. "If America attacks, we're the ones who'll have to fight," says Ali Hojjati, 20. The day after Khamenei's speech, an old man at a kiosk gazed at a headline in the right-wing paper Kayhan: America is insincere, we won't cooperate. "I remember during the Gulf...
When Bush listened to his p.r. team and worried about his image, he was at his worst. When he listened to his conscience, turned his back on evangelists Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, who had suggested that the bombings might be God's wrath on gays, lesbians, feminists and civil libertarians, he was becoming the kind of leader we need. And when he mourned victims and comforted survivors and rallied the nation from the rubble, he began to discover his best...