"Didn't Persephone eat the pomegranate pips though it condemned her... to six months of every year in the underworld?" Sarah Gabriel has consumed the obscene fruit of death.
Now that Iran is fighting IS, and Saudi Arabia the Houthis, Mr Obama's attempt to let the countries of the region deal with their problems might seem vindicated though it condemns many to untold violence which may well turn against America, or its interests.It is certainly true that, in the aftermath of the occupation of Iraq and the Arab spring, the region is a bloody mess.
Rather, when he organized elections in 1985 to legitimize his rule, and then blatantly rigged the results, the United States put its imprimatur on the exercise, even though it was condemned by Liberian and international human rights groups.
Liberals say that the Bible might seem as though it's condemning homosexuality, but that it's not, really; the conservatives say that there's a plain meaning of the Bible when it says homosexuality's a sin.
Hamas, they said, likely had no knowledge of the murders — though it did not condemn it either.
So far, no action has been taken against the policeman, the Station House Officer of Lahore's Shadman police station, though it has been condemned by human rights groups and local commentators.
One in ten of those dynastic daughters was done away with at birth.Female infanticide clearly continues in China, even though it is illegal and condemned by the government.
This week's issue of The Economist explains how and why it happened so fast and argues that it should still be condemned even though it was not a coup.
The board also failed to exclude Syria from two committees involved in human rights, as had been the hope of several Western delegations, though it did approve a resolution condemning the "violent repression" in that country.
Also included were Palestinian hostages abducted by Israelis to pressure their family members into spying for Israel, a practice Israel has followed for years without a murmur of criticism from Washington, though widely condemned by human rights groups.
Iranian leadership condemned the attacks, though it also sharply opposed U.S. military intervention in Afghanistan the following month.
