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Egyptian public-health authorities overreacted and ordered the
slaughter
of all pigs in the country.
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.
But what if Spain - and Europe as a whole - had reacted in the opposite way to the Madrid train bombing of April, saying: "We promise that because of that
slaughter
we will double our support for stabilization in Iraq by sending twice as many troops, experts, engineers, teachers, policemen, doctors, and billions of euros in support of allied forces and their Iraqi co-workers."
In one scene, two Mexican hit men ruthlessly
slaughter
a dozen innocent compatriots who could bear witness to their border crossing.
The PVV has argued for the closing of all Islamic schools, the required “assimilation” of all immigrants (whatever that means), and even the prohibition of halal (Islamic)
slaughter.
(At one point, the PVV was against allowing even kosher slaughter.)
In these circumstances, a no-fly zone would not only clear the skies of Syrian warplanes and missiles, thereby reducing the scale of the slaughter; it would also show Assad and his supporters that he truly is vulnerable.
Bosnia's Muslims thank America, not the EU, for their deliverance from
slaughter.
By contrast, the mass killing in Rwanda a decade ago and now in Darfur, Sudan, demonstrate the high price of judging sovereignty to be supreme and thus doing little to prevent the
slaughter
of innocents.
If the main justification for an attack is humanitarian – to end the senseless
slaughter
of Syrian civilians – US military intervention would do more harm than good.
So, now, as the
slaughter
in Syria continues, those who want to stop the bloodletting look to Turkey.
For starters, governments can – and should – stop subsidizing factory farming and the crops that fatten up factory-farmed animals for
slaughter.
This came just a month after the author Fatma Naoot appealed the three-year sentence she received when a Facebook post criticizing the
slaughter
of animals for a Muslim feast led to a guilty verdict for “contempt for Islam.”
Many aspects of the nineteenth-century
slaughter
of the indigenous population in the US were genocidal in nature.
The Decline of the West RevisitedLONDON – The terrorist
slaughter
in Paris has once again brought into sharp relief the storm clouds gathering over the twenty-first century, dimming the bright promise for Europe and the West that the fall of communism opened up.
Stopping the deliberate
slaughter
of civilians is not a byproduct of a peace deal, but a prerequisite for successful negotiations.
Each of these constitutes a war crime, a crime against humanity and, in the case of the Anfal campaign and its mass slaughter, and perhaps also in the case of the Marsh Arabs, the gravest crime of all, genocide.
The US turned a blind eye to Turkey’s recent invasion and occupation of the Kurdish-held city of Afrin in northwest Syria, which led to the
slaughter
of more than 1,000 Kurds, including scores of civilians.
The United States had to coax many Western European countries into helping to stop the
slaughter
of innocents in Bosnia.
That League’s mission did not stop the killing, but it represented an escalation of pressure to end the
slaughter
– and it was based on leverage gained in Libya.
If we are to take the free movement of people seriously, we should
slaughter
the sacred cow of immediate eligibility for host-state benefits.
The Australian government strongly opposes whaling, yet it permits the killing of millions of kangaroos each year – a
slaughter
that involves a great deal of animal suffering.
In Gandhi’s own time, non-violence could have done nothing to prevent the
slaughter
of Jews in Hitler’s path.
They reject the widely accepted view, based on early sacred texts, that ancient believers did not ban the
slaughter
of cattle, and that such a ban probably became part of the Hindu moral code only around the fifth and sixth centuries AD, when the later Puranas were written.
The
slaughter
by terrorists of hundreds of Russian children in Beslan was final proof - if more was needed - of the utter incompetence of Russia's military and security services.
Benedict Egbuna's five-year old son, Benedict Jr., born five months after the
slaughter
of his father, is a source of comfort to both of us and to all who knew his father.
But, despite legal prohibitions, slavery proved remarkably resilient, with colonists using subterfuges such as debt peonage, “just wars” (which sanctioned enslavement of captured enemies as a more moral outcome than justified slaughter), and other tricks.
Like the World War I generals who reacted to every
slaughter
of their men by sending even more over the top of their trenches in a vain attempt to overwhelm the enemy, “free money” types react with “More!” if their policy does not seem to be working.
Bush’s termination of the ground war in Iraq after only four days was motivated in part by humanitarian concerns about the
slaughter
of Iraqi troops, as well as by an interest in not leaving Iraq so weakened that it could not balance the power of neighboring Iran.
Similarly, it was not Putin who enacted a constitution with an enormously powerful presidential government and a weak system of checks and balances, nor did he start the
slaughter
in Chechnya.
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