A lot is at stake here. If we let them get away with murder we may set a very dangerous precedent. 
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Mayor elected of Jerusalem Nir Barkat (C) greets the Western Wall Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch (R) during a visit to Judaism holiest site, on November 12, 2008 in Jerusalem's old city. The secular tycoon celebrating his election as Jerusalem mayor today vowed to turn the Holy City into a world metropolis and bolster its disputed status as Israel's "undivided" capital. Nir Barkat won 52 percent of the vote in yesterday's poll, routing an ultra-Orthodox rabbi, a scandal-plagued Russian-Israeli billionaire and a pro-cannabis candidate.
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Burma warned over cyclone delays / Quotes
A lot is at stake here. If we let them get away with murder we may set a very dangerous precedent.
was said
in Yahoo News
I can't imagine us going in without the permission of the Myanmar government
said Robert Gates
in Yahoo News
You have to think it through - do you want to secure an area of the country by military force? What kinds of potential security risks would that create? ... I can't imagine any humanitarian organization wanting to shoot their way in with food.
was said
in Yahoo News
We can pay for it - we can provide repair parts to the Indonesians so they can get their Air Force up. We can lend the them two C-130s and let them paint the Indonesian flag on them ... We have to get the stuff to people who can deliver it and who the Burmese government will accept, even if takes an extra day or two and even if it's not as efficient as the good old U.S. military.
said William Nash
in Yahoo News
It's important for the rulers to know the world has other options ... If there were, say, the threat of a cholera epidemic that could claim hundreds of thousands of lives and the government was incapable of preventing it, then maybe yes - you would intervene unilaterally.
said Jan Egeland
in Yahoo News
Even as hundreds of thousands of its citizens struggle for basic shelter, food and health care, Myanmar's government has prioritized acceptance of the new constitution
was said
in Malaysia Sun
