No-one can view the start of a war - especially a war with fearsome weaponry - with anything other than horror.

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"These guys need to do everything they can to solve this case, so they can prevent anything like this horror from happening again, " it said.

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The corollaries of this American ethos were, on the one hand, an affinity for personal enterprise and industry and, on the other, a horror of dependency and contempt for anything that smacked of a mendicant mentality.

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Conservationists no longer throw up their hands in horror at the very idea of wildlife being exploited (for anything other than tourism, which was always all right).

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But I must say, I've never seen anything comparable to what we have seen here today, the magnitude of it, the horror of it.

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