Ted Cruz, the Texas senator who finished second in the primary and who recently, having attacked Trump fiercely over his character, endorsed the businessman, wrote on Twitter late Friday: "These comments are disturbing and inappropriate, there is simply no excuse for them".
Without a care for the consequences, the U.S. first fostered Islamic extremists in the 1980s (repackaging them for public consumption as "fiercely religious freedom fighters"), then endorsed the rise of the Taliban by claiming they were a "cleansing" force (apparently for these same fiercely religious freedom fighters).
Indeed, Gorbachev's vision was much the same as that endorsed by the fiercely anti-Communist former dissidents in East Germany — and by the likes of Vaclav Havel in Czechoslovakia, too.
Their coalition, the American Highway Users Alliance, still lobbies fiercely against tolls on existing roads, but it endorsed the legislation permitting tolls on new lanes and roads.
Although endorsed and supported by many, this approach has been fiercely opposed by several key opinion leaders over the years.
His longtime aide, Abu Mazen, just endorsed a recent proposal of Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak for a one-year truce, fiercely rejected by Hamas and other pro-war groups.
Our correspondent Helena Smith writes: For the past few hours, Cyprus' 56-seat House of Representatives has been fiercely debating the controversial bailout agreement in the knowledge that the island's fate now hangs on the rescue package being endorsed.
He also backpedaled fiercely on whether there ought to be a path to citizenship for those who entered the country against the rules, which in the past he has endorsed.
The basic restrictions on proprietary trading have been fiercely opposed by banks and large Wall Street firms since they were proposed by Paul Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman, for whom it is named, and endorsed by President Obama early this year.
James Baldwin, Harry Belafonte and Eleanor Roosevelt endorsed her efforts.
