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Given the current popular mood – soured by recent terrorist attacks, from the murder of 86 people in a truck attack in Nice in July to the savage slaughter of a priest in Normandy later that month – Sarkozy’s approach may just work.
They simply lost the will, in Rudyard Kipling’s famous words, to fight “the savage wars of peace.”
He has implied that they were merely young people from fancy neighborhoods who got what they deserved; and he has dismissed the government’s savage attacks on the opposition by musing that, “sometimes people get burned.”
China’s treatment of dissidents like Liu is nothing short of savage.
The wild card is the increasingly savage war between the Pakistani state and the Islamic militants who have established a de facto independent state – a so-called ‘Al Qaedastan’ – straddling the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
The Middle East is in the early phases of a modern-day Thirty Years’ War, in which political and religious loyalties are destined to fuel prolonged and sometimes savage conflicts within and across national borders.
The Western view of apes regarded them as akin to Rousseau's "noble savage" - autonomous individuals, devoid of social ties and obligations, driven by instinct to swing haphazardly from one fruit tree to the next.
These brave women constituted the only opposition that dared to confront the savage military junta in the late 1970’s, demanding to know the fate of their “disappeared” children.
Nevertheless, their religious faith in privatization, unfettered markets, and monetarism led them to over-hasty asset sales, reckless deregulation, and savage deflation.
But time is relative: "soon" came to mean twelve years that included a savage war and the Holocaust.
The Americans are latecomers, but official hatred of American imperialism in North Korea stems not only from the savage Korean War, but also from the long memory of foreign oppression.
The fundamental problem consists in an existential struggle between utterly dysfunctional states and an obscenely savage brand of theocratic fanaticism.
It is easy to predict that Sarajevo will be the place where they will meet to look back on Europe’s savage twentieth century.
The promise to work with Russia to end the savage conflict in Syria is sensible, even though it implies the victory of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
They were savage colonial conflicts under the Czar and almost genocidal under Stalin, who deported the whole Chechen population, a third of which perished during their transfer to the Gulag.
With UN administrators still holding sway in Kosovo and Bosnia years after their savage wars ended, and with talk of a UN mission to replace the US occupation administration in Iraq, when should an international administration be terminated and oversight of a country returned to its citizens?
In fact, to compare Merah’s savage deeds to the killings of September 11, 2001, as Sarkozy has done, is to give the killer too much credit.
It was not a savage outburst of innate African tribalism.
According to Tretyakov, “the coming to power of a Democrat as president in America is incomparably worse for us than the savage imperialism of today’s Republican administration.”
In Medvedev’s mental universe, savage reprisals today will somehow turn the North Caucasus into a zone of international ski tourism tomorrow.
Sadly, it is just the latest battle in a savage war being waged against the fundamental right of all children to an education.
After years of torturing people in one of South America’s most savage “dirty wars,” Brazil’s generals decided to stop it, because its institutionalized use was undermining the armed forces’ discipline and morale.
Thus, Hirohito might have been seeking to express his view that Japan should avoid a war with the US, especially given that the country had been fighting a savage and unsuccessful war of conquest in China for more than four years.
For the Islamic State’s crude and contrived medievalism, the past is of only instrumental value, to be refashioned in the service of violent conquest and savage repression.
Political solutions to these conflicts are the surest way to stop the suffering and bring an end to such savage violations of human rights.
This cartel is now equally savage in its efforts to enforce optimism, and to pillory anyone who disagrees as a traitor or moaner.
On November 14, the front page of The New York Times led with the following description: “Army tanks and fighting vehicles blasted their way into the last main rebel stronghold in Falluja at sundown on Saturday after American warplanes and artillery prepared the way with a savage barrage on the district.
A pair of savage massacres of Bengali Muslim migrant groups – one of which killed some 3,000 in the Assamese village of Nellie and other villages in 1983 – exposed the depth of the crisis.
Two savage consequences are foreseeable: first, that there is no better way to turn parts of public opinion in the candidate countries against the EU than by allowing local populists to portray the Union as an agent of spreading German power.
Signing the Declaration amounts to a political commitment to protect education, even during the most savage conflicts – which is to say that it is a commitment to protect the world’s children.
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