These children are often left bereft by state as well as parents, a world away from the moralistic finger-wagging of politicians.
Even if French intervention is on the basis of money (or defending their geopolitical standing, depending on your perspective), there's no denying the rebels would've easily taken Bamako from the fractured Malian army and instituted a morally bereft sharia-state based on medieval shit, like stoning people to death, if the French hadn't intervened.
Even if French intervention is on the basis of money (or defending their geopolitical standing, depending on your perspective), there's no denying the rebels would've easily taken Bamako from the fractured Malian army and instituted a morally bereft sharia-state based on biblical shit, like stoning people to death, if the French hadn't intervened.
Just as he criticised a future Palestinian state bereft of Jews, so he called the occupation a "cancer" on Israeli society.
Netanyahu's vision of a Palestinian states is bereft of the very factors that make a state sovereign: effective control over land, sky, and sea, among other things.
Bereft of both a state and freedom, an increasing number speak of abandoning the hope of a separate Palestinian state, and dreaming of a halcyon single democratic state embracing Israel instead.
So it is not like the state is bereft of talent.
Yes, there were libraries, schools and cultural centers, but when it came to disk-golf courses, the state was bereft.
Meanwhile, the newly bereft families, buried in state and federal paperwork and shuttled between charities, are given a choice between accepting an egregious federal victims' compensation award or pursuing a lengthy legal battle in the courts.
The Democrats are cheerfully claiming that the Republicans are so bereft of talent in a state of 12.5m people that they have to go to Maryland to find any.
