Ironically, Russian arms for Damascus might help stop a war.
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Americans regularly elect people based on their experiences overseas, namely soldiers, so it should not be such a stretch to vote in a diplomat: someone who spent his time trying to stop a war, not to win one.
The pool is one stop on a tour of former war zones in the district of Mullaitivu, one of the worst areas of fighting during a conflict in which up to 100, 000 people died.
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If Dr Jaafari is to stand a chance of making peace among his fellow Iraqis, he needs to change tack both in the way he builds a ruling coalition and in how he tries to stop Iraq sliding into a full-blown civil war.
But a Russian attempt to stop the war by declaring victory now would not work.
Striking the same theme, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Friday passed a bill dubbed the Stop the War on Coal Act to roll back environmental laws that affect the fossil-fuel industry, although the Senate will almost certainly block it.
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More recently he was a prominent member of the Stop the War Coalition.
People who love the Arctic for its beauty, not its riches, look enviously at Antarctica, which was carefully parcelled out by a treaty regime designed to stop the cold war spreading south.
Security Council members hold more meetings today to try to hammer out an agreement for a proposed cease-fire resolution to help stop the war between Israel and Hezbollah.
If so many were dying in a war, there would be frantic efforts to stop it.
Obama was "a vulnerable man who will not be able to stop the war, as he promised, but instead he will drag it to the maximum possible extent, " the message said.
On Monday night, PA reported that about 15 students -- members of the School of Oriental and African Studies' branch of Stop the War Coalition -- occupied the reception area of a BBC building in central London and demanded to speak to a senior member of the corporation.
Al-Sadr on Saturday gave his "last warning" to the Iraqi government that he would "declare a war" unless U.S. and Iraqi forces stop their assaults on his followers.
Since communication was slow, said Bean, it could take months to let a crew of pirates know that the war was over and they should stop destroying ships and looting.
However, we now live in a time when there are video cameras at stop-light intersections, drones that patrol war zones, my iPhone can even find itself, so there has to be a better way to monitor felons (inmates) without having them housed on sprawling government complexes and on the government payroll.
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That won't stop many analysts from speculating that the real purpose of the Medco divestment is to create a massive war chest that Merck will use to buy new drugs--or perhaps to merge with another drug firm like Schering-Plough (nyse: SGP - news - people), with which it co-promotes several drugs, or Eli Lilly (nyse: LLY - news - people).
Cuba is Benedict's second stop on a tour that has also taken him to Mexico, where he denounced the violence-plagued drug war before traveling to the island nation.
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