Two decades after the end of the Cold War, we face a cruel irony of history -- the risk of a nuclear confrontation between nations has gone down, but the risk of nuclear attack has gone up.
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Britain, France and Sweden are sending their foreign ministers to Colombo this week to put pressure on Sri Lanka's government to ensure that the remaining non-combatants are not treated with the cruel disregard they were shown while trapped in the war zone.
Their leader, Jessie Lee (Mario Van Peebles), fights in a black Army unit in the Spanish-American War until a cruel, capricious white officer (Billy Zane) pushes him to the breaking point.
We could stop doing the most stupid and cruel thing we currently do: stop fighting the War on Drugs.
Most countries with big histories have to wrench themselves into gazing into the darker chasms of their past: Americans about slavery and the near-genocide of their country's indigenous peoples, Britons about the racial arrogance and cruel excesses of empire, Spaniards and Italians about fratricidal war and fascism, the French about collaboration and cowardice, and Germans most acutely of all about the Holocaust and the slaughter of the second world war.
Mr Hazare has called the proposed legislation a "cruel joke" and has described the fight against corruption as the "second war of Independence".
But it will also shorten the days they must suffer war's cruel reality.
The Hound is crude but sympathetic, a dog of war to be sure, but not so cruel or merciless as his brother or the king.
In any event, for al-Qaeda to pretend that the war in Iraq is the reason for their campaign of violence is a cruel deceit.
The old man sat next to me, perhaps too tired to continue his tirade against cruel Fate, careless Americans, war and its accidents.
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