In other words, breadth and "inclusivity" must not become ends in themselves, especially if they compromise the moral basis of avenging the slaughter of innocents.
Obviously, there are Muslim grievances, of which U.S. foreign policy is an important one, but none of them warrants the slaughter of innocents including religious minorities in Muslim lands who typically express the same grievances.
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But even before his death, al Qaeda was losing its struggle for relevance, as the overwhelming majority of people saw that the slaughter of innocents did not answer their cries for a better life.
We intervened in Libya alongside a broad coalition, and with the mandate of the United Nations Security Council, because we had the ability to stop the slaughter of innocents, and because we believed that the aspirations of the people were more powerful than a tyrant.
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Denis Lavant valiantly throws himself into the role of a vengeful sewer-dwelling creature as the story careens from the slaughter of innocents to a courtroom circus and an execution.
And we are going to continue to keep the pressure up, and are looking for every tool available to prevent the slaughter of innocents in Syria.
But it is long past time to acknowledge that there is no moral equivalency between those that work to defend the innocent, though imperfectly, and those that defend the slaughter of innocents to justify political ends.
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And others argue that Mr Sharon's government should have deferred Mr Shehada's assassination to test an initiative that may not have brought a total end to violence but might at least have prevented the continued slaughter of innocents whether these are dining in a university cafeteria in Jerusalem or sleeping in their beds in Gaza City.
No less possible is a sanguinary last stand in the streets of Baghdad, leading to a slaughter of innocents as well as of fighting men.
The warmongers are no doubt hoping that India's security forces will go on a rampage, killing more innocents in the name of punishing those behind the slaughter.
If they could promulgate a new global regime of international humanitarian law, they believed they could force governments to rise above their hatreds and the shackles of their narrow-minded national interests to save innocents from slaughter.
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