Obama did essentially the same to Mubarak and left Egypt to the tender mercies of the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Israel abandoned thousands of loyal allies from the South Lebanon Army and their families to the tender mercies of Hizbullah.
What is clear at this point is that the Saudis sought help apprehending the man who fled their not-so-tender mercies.
What is more, this approach could cater for all applicants simultaneously, including the Baltic states and Ukraine, without leaving some indeterminate "second wave" to the tender mercies of Russian retaliation.
The Baker-Hamilton Iraq Survey Group is wildly enthusiastic that President Bush has effectively embraced its central proposal for extricating the United States from Iraq, namely by surrendering the Iraqi people to the tender mercies of their neighbors.
Economists on the left and right have cited the recent housing bust as proof that homes are not great investments, suggesting people would be better off leaving their money to the tender mercies of Wall Street speculators.
That the Western European democracies were able to shelter under the American nuclear umbrella, while Eastern Europe was left to the tender mercies of the successors to Stalin, has more to do with peace being maintained that the ECSC.
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The President can expect many more such pyrrhic victories now that his faithful lieutenant, John Bolton, has been forced to leave the Turtle Bay portfolio to the tender mercies of lowest-common-denominator-minded State Department diplomats like Under Secretary Nick Burns.
Particularly appalling, the region's Axis of Evil is poised, all other things being equal, to return Nicaragua - the country Ronald Reagan did so much to help free from the Sandinistas' communist rule - to the tender mercies of their long-time authoritarian comandante, Daniel Ortega .
That is, Mitchell demonstrated that like the Palestinians and the Saudis, the Obama administration's idea of a resolution of the Palestinian conflict with Israel involves a complete Israeli surrender to all Arab (and now American) demands while trusting our security to the tender mercies of Palestinian terrorists.
Given that PSI may be an effective tool for countering one of the most dangerous threats we currently face, it would be irresponsible to join a treaty that could preclude such activity, especially if the question is left to the tender mercies of the Law of the Sea Tribunal.
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