The king's wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.

The king's wrath is a messenger of death, but a wise man will pacify it.

The wrath of a king is as messengers of death but a wise man will pacify it.

The wrath of a king is as messengers of death but a wise man will pacify it.

But if the path of war is finally taken, and, in its aftermath, the international community fails once again to pacify the world s most dysfunctional region, the Middle East would devolve into an unruly chaos far more dangerous than the threat of an Iranian bomb.

President George W. Bush s Iraq war arguably a violation of international law showed that though America spends almost as much on defense as the rest of the world combined, it could not pacify a country with less than 10 of its population and less than 1 of its GDP.

To address that possible scenario the United Nations must establish punitive and targeted sanctions against those who try to spoil Somalia's chance for lasting peace by undermining the ongoing efforts to pacify the country and by frustrating the effectiveness of the Government in upholding the primacy of the rule of law.

There is a great danger that the new Iraq s sectarian politics will benefit those who promise their constituents the most at the expense of the central government and the country s other factions. Debates over possible constitutional amendments intended to pacify angry Sunnis and to de fang the insurgency are likely to incite factional hostility as well.

American exceptionalism may sell well at home, but it does poorly abroad. President George W. Bush s Iraq war arguably a violation of international law nbsp showed that though America spends almost as much on defense as the rest of the world combined, it could not pacify a country with less than 10 of its population and less than 1 of its GDP.