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The wounds of the Civil War remain unhealed.
In reality, these conflicts are not frozen; they are festering wounds that breed corruption and organized crime.
Every other objective, whether productivity growth, keeping foreign friends, improving education, or healing social wounds, takes a back seat to strengthening his rule.
Have no doubt: today’s markets rely heavily on the old adage that “time heals all wounds.”
That there will now be a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Belgrade suggests that the current Yugoslav leadership understands that it needs to heal the wounds inflicted on its own people by the murderous Milosevic regime.
The collapse of the USSR, America’s self-inflicted wounds – particularly in Iraq – and the spectacular rise of Asia have changed European perceptions of the US.
In his second inaugural address, following a period of extreme division and civil war, Abraham Lincoln declared, “let us strive on” and “bind up the nation’s wounds.”
Before the wounds had fully healed, the treatment was terminated.
Their fears are warranted, because the current financial crisis is undermining the very union that was established to heal Europe’s wounds at the end of World War II.
Today, China’s extraordinarily rapid economic and political rise has disposed both its government and public to seek to redress old wounds from that period, and not to offer anything in exchange along the way.
Moon is well positioned to capitalize on Trump’s self-inflicted wounds – which have included threats of unilateral military action, protectionist mantras, and the abandonment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement.
European integration across the board, not only in the defense field, would suffer a major setback as Paris licks its wounds.
Prime Minister Barak will also have to be a healer: he will have to heal the wounds between Jews and Arabs, and between Jews and Jews.
Only when the disease goes untreated does the damage caused to the peripheral nerves lead to loss of sensation and invite ulceration and wounds.
If there is a silver lining, it is that self-inflicted wounds are beginning to threaten the regime and its leaders.
Yushchenko offered his hand to his foes in good faith so as to bind up our nation’s wounds; in return, the governing pact that he reached with Yanukovych was betrayed at every turn.
The strategic shocks of recent years have left deep and lasting wounds, and pushed Europe into new and uncharted waters.
But could ancestral wounds be forgotten?
Fear of the Left overcame history's open wounds: Batlle won by 7%, implying that almost all Blancos flocked to him.
Cooperation with an expanded NATO will be no compensation, and will not salve the wounds.
For those of us who lived and worked in the region during that turbulent decade, the post-Yugoslav wars remain fresh wounds.
After all, it won only a simple majority; once opposition parties finish licking their wounds from this month’s results, new alliances may pressure the incumbents from all sides.
Its people are dying from starvation, from preventable and curable diseases (at much higher rates than the Latin American average), and from violence – including, in some cases, gunshot wounds inflicted by their own government.
This failure to follow through reopens old wounds and raises troubling questions about the legitimacy of an institution that, reflecting the long shadow of history, is dominated by a handful of advanced countries.
Europe’s leaders have so far applied only plaster to the wounds.
Corruption and OccupationTEL AVIV – Police investigations, commissions of inquiry examining the errors committed during the Lebanon war of 2006, repugnance at former President Moshe Katsav’s alleged sex crimes, and now Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s announcement that, with charges of corruption swirling about him, he will resign in September: all of this suggests profound wounds in Israel’s moral tissue.
The article was wrong, because Hong Kong's deepest wounds have not come from China's ruler, but are self-inflicted.
Trump’s impairments usually involve great efforts by him and others to keep his inner wounds covered.
Taking it would help to heal Europe’s wounds and clear the ground for the debate that the European Union needs about the kind of political union that Europeans deserve.
Not only have the wounds of the 1930’s failed to heal, but China and Japan have conflicting visions of Japan’s proper place in Asia and the world.
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