But such forceful efforts to deter potential enemies and influence friends can be dated back, as Arendt wrote, to "the fateful war crime that ended the last world war," the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The attack on Aziz was also one of Saddam's reasons for launching his fateful war against Iran, in 1980, which ended up lasting eight years and may have cost more than a million lives.
Only twice in its 57-year history had the council managed to solve the most fateful issues of war and peace -- in 1950, when the council authorized war in Korea (while the Soviet Union was staging a boycott of the body), and in late 1990, before the first war against Iraq.
The fateful progression toward war with Japan gets about the same amount of space as do relations with Latin America.
Buda Castle, where Miklós Horthy, the country's regent, resided after 1920, played a fateful role in World War II.
OVER three years of sustained argument, Roosevelt occasionally back-tracked, but at every step a long national conversation preceded fateful moves toward total war.
With characteristic bad timing, Elsa's old lover, Admiral von Spee, drops by on his way to the Falklands - providing a romantic if far-fetched explanation for one of the most fateful decisions of the war.
In time of war, when fateful decisions must be made quickly, power flows to the single individual controlling the executive branch, not the 535 people who share control of the legislative branch.
Meanwhile, Bangladeshis fret over prices of food and fuel, chronic power cuts and broken promises of new roads.In this section Banged about The shogun of Osaka City at war A fateful call More fun? ReprintsAs the leader of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Khaleda Zia, tells it, all ills lie at the government's door.
Leon Panetta, America's defence secretary, insisted Dr Afridi "was not in any way treasonous towards Pakistan".In this section Banged about The shogun of Osaka City at war A fateful call More fun? ReprintsWorking for a foreign intelligence agency is a crime in many places, including America.
A senior police official was close to tears when he explained that the gangsters wielded weapons that law-enforcers did not know they possessed.In this section Banged about The shogun of Osaka City at war A fateful call More fun? ReprintsThe Lyari violence highlights the complicated relationship between crime and politics in Karachi.
