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Like the rich in Jakarta and Rio de Janeiro, isolated behind steel doors at night and with armed guards on the watch, perhaps we too should begin to fear the everyday squalor from which we avert our eyes.
Second, the CIA has long armed and trained Sunni jihadists through covert operations funded by Saudi Arabia.
True, there has been a resurgence since 2004 of what statisticians (if not humanists) would call “minor armed conflicts.”
Argentines, Brazilians, and Chileans of my generation grew up with heavily armed soldiers patrolling airports, train stations, and other public places.
It is in Israel’s best interest to reach a settlement with the man who has constantly repudiated his predecessors’ tactics of armed conflict.
It has submitted comments on health-insurer mergers for proceedings in California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin; it has testified at hearings in California, Delaware, Florida, Missouri, New York, Virginia, and Wisconsin; and it has armed consumer groups and unions with relevant facts and figures.
Reform of the armed services has boiled down to disarmament alone.
A crucial hallmark of Palestinian society is the weakness of its institutions: civic organizations are woefully under-developed, and responsive party structures that can effectively representing social interests do not exist--except those of the armed militias, like Fatah or Hamas.
For the Israelis, the public statements of Palestinian armed groups celebrating rocket and mortar attacks on civilians strengthen a deep-rooted concern that negotiation will yield little and that their nation remains under existential threat from which only it can protect its people.
This lack of foresight about and planning for the aftermath of armed intervention is not only dangerous to the people who have ostensibly been “saved”; it is counterproductive.
Last December 27, 20 armed police officers used extreme physical violence to arrest Hu Jia in front of his wife and their two-month-old baby, acting as if he could offer real resistance.
Operation Actual JusticeNEW YORK – Barack Obama has promised to send a group of 100 armed United States military personnel to Uganda – a high-powered posse to help bring to heel (and to justice) the notorious war criminal Joseph Kony, the leader of a brutal rebel group known as the Lord’s Resistance Army.
Is this reporting structure unique to the US military, or is it the norm in mixed-gender armed forces in other advanced democracies (or near-democracies)?
Similarly, the nature of US military tactics – which in recent years have frequently conflated civilian “collateral damage” with combat against armed enemies – has dehumanized the victims.
There can be no meaningful change until US military leaders reestablish the rules and the code of honor that have protected soldiers – and the armed forces’ legitimacy and prestige – for generations.
Adding to the anxiety were fears that law and order had broken down in the city, and that the hospital itself might be a target for armed bandits.
Second, and related to the Responsibility to Protect, we must enhance the protection of civilians in armed conflicts before conflicts occur.
The proliferation of non-state armed groups around the world makes civilian protection both more urgent and harder to achieve.
Unemployed urban youth and ethnic militias are driving an upsurge of armed robbery and political violence in such cities as Lagos and Warri in the south, and Kaduna and Kano in the north.
Consider the South African and Tanzanian troops using military force, under a Brazilian commander, to fight armed groups in the Congo, and the many African statesmen whose efforts have been central in mediation attempts across the continent.
While significant change is on the way, including increased integration of Europe’s armed forces, the road toward a well-functioning European defense union is long.
Last month, Mugabe's riot police, armed with AK-47 rifles, raided the paper, halting production and looting much of its equipment-though not the new printing press, which was too big to carry away.
The difference between these victorious leftists and El Salvador’s FMLN will be revealed when the FMLN’s old characteristics as an armed movement are challenged by the daily facts of governance.
Their answer is a revived Western world, led by the United States, engaged in an armed crusade for democracy.
Where necessary, they can be supported by air and maritime rapid response assets, and thus constitute a fully-fledged military resource for armed intervention.
Instead, it is focused on defending and expanding the dominion of the Muslim faith through jihad, or armed struggle.
But backing an armed rebellion is a major step, especially when the rebels whom one is backing have, as in Syria, started something that they may not be able to finish.
The killing of Osama bin Laden last year required an actual hit squad to verify its success, but normally assassinations can be left to drones – unmanned aircraft, mainly used for surveillance, but which can be armed with computer-guided missiles.
This happened after the first Chechen campaign (1994-1996), but the peace that ensued was merely an armed truce.
America’s troubling ties with Islamist rulers and groups were cemented in the 1980’s, when the Reagan administration used Islam as an ideological tool to spur armed resistance to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
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