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"Where does it say that you have a contract with G-d to have an easy life?"

the Lubavitcher Rebbe



"Failure is not the enemy of success; it is its prerequisite."

Rabbi Nosson Scherman



22 Feb 2010

The Pavlovian response

This evening I came across a condemnation by President Sarkozy of the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh but haven't heard similar words about the NATO airstrike in Afghanistan which killed 27 civilians or the killing of Mohammad Haqqani.
Why the double standard?

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has reiterated his condemnation of the assassination of a Hamas official in Dubai and insisted "nothing positive" comes of such killings.
Sarkozy was hosting Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Paris on Monday. He said France cannot accept such "executions."
http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1186309&lang=eng_news

One day after Afghan President Hamid Karzai made an impassioned plea for American-led forces to do more to avoid killing civilians in their fight against the Taliban, a NATO air strike killed as many as 27 civilians in southern Afghanistan, Afghan and U.S. officials said Monday.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/02/22/87352/us-concedes-air-strike-killed.html

A missile believed to have been fired Thursday from an American drone killed the younger brother of a top militant commander in the North Waziristan tribal area...
...The brother, Mohammad Haqqani, was killed along with three others when their white station wagon was hit by a missile in Dande Darpakhel, a village in North Waziristan, bordering Afghanistan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/20/world/asia/20pstan.html?scp=1&sq=mohammed%20brother%20killed%20qmericqn%20drone&st=cse



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