The fact is Assad continues to brutalize his own people and the situation is extremely volatile.

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And when Qaddafi and his forces started going city to city, town by town, to brutalize men, women and children, the world refused to stand idly by.

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Celent released its report last week, as foreign regulators warned the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) that its proposed new derivatives rules could brutalize global markets.

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Why would the demonstrators want to brutalize them?

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