Libation, North Carolina, 1999.

Blood needed to be shed if a better world was to be baptized.

Those who would seek to halt the bloodshed have no good options.

As in Iraq, the conflict could provoke large scale bloodletting.

The West needs to get out before the bloodletting starts again in earnest.

But, instead of protection of freedom, Americans nowadays are getting massive bloodshed and fear.

But, after decades of bloodshed, repression, and criminalization, things have begun to move in the right direction.

Almost invariably, the greatest diplomatic successes have followed, rather than preceded, bloodshed.

Portugal and Brazil Brazil was the only country in Latin America to gain its independence without bloodshed.

So first, the way in which this woman was treated, in as little as 10 years, will look like bloodletting.

It is permissible, according to bin Laden s ally in Iraq, Abu Musab Zarqawi, to spill infidel blood.

Training police forces to secure law and order without resorting to bloodshed is no less important than elections.

Even if there were instant peace, the region will pay the price for Taylor s bloodlust for decades to come.

One general asked me, off the record, How did you manage to implement such dramatic political changes without bloodshed?

After all, security alternatives that would prevent further bloodshed at the time of the Second Intifada did not exist.

Even when China s voice could be decisive in resolving crises or preventing bloodshed, instead of acting, its diplomats repeat the old platitudes about non interference.

Should violence increase, ordinary soldiers would likely once again feel duty bound to intervene to restore order and prevent further bloodshed.

Now Georgia and the Ukraine would like to expect that Europeans and Americans would shed blood to defend them against Russia.

A commitment by the Palestinians to stop terrorism and incitement to further bloodshed, and by Israel to address the issue of settlements, remains pivotal.

As to whether the demonstrations were doomed to end in failure and bloodshed, this too is easy to say in hindsight.

Putting this genie back in its bottle would be virtually impossible without bloodshed of the type we are now witnessing in some parts of the Arab world.

Other neighbors would also pay a price should the Taliban s seemingly invariable return turn bloody, however immune they believe they are.

In support of the global call, 50 world leaders have published an open letter in the Financial Times calling on UN Security Council members to Unite for Syria and Stop One Year of bloodshed .

There are few cases where diplomacy actually succeeded in preventing war. Almost invariably, the greatest diplomatic successes have followed, rather than preceded, bloodshed.

Were the US forced to withdraw in failure, Islamic terrorist groups would claim a historic victory, promising more bloodshed for the West.

In a bizarre twist, al Shabaab even called on Kenyans to prosecute their leaders for post election bloodletting in 2007 2008.

Those being attacked merely need weapons to defend themselves if they get them, the entire dynamic of the conflict will shift, in turn ending the bloodshed.

This dreadful and endless war needs to be discussed openly if it is to end peacefully.

That change, which was carried out peacefully, without bloodshed and without disturbing people's everyday lives, was greeted with great joy and tremendous popular support unprecedented in the history of our country.

The most likely scenario, however, looks something like Turkey in 1980 an undemocratic, military dominated outcome, but no serious bloodshed.

In exchange, Kadyrov was to wage war against the remaining Islamist resistance and thus relieve Moscow of the burden of shedding Russian blood, or at least minimize the cost in Russian casualties.

NAIROBI As Kenya approaches its general election on March 4, memories of the bloodshed that marred the controversial 2007 presidential election remain fresh.

Snow had found that the proportion of urea in the urine of his patients was low and concluded from this that urea was accumulating in the blood, and therefore proposed bloodletting to counter this.

Even when football doesn t lead to actual bloodshed, it inspires strong emotions primitive and tribal evoking the days when warriors donned facial paint and jumped up and down in war dances, hollering like apes.

Further south, Kenya remains scarred by the aftermath of post election violence, and its constitutional review process could lead to yet more bloodshed.

Preventing Assad from using his killing machine by any means, including targeted strikes on his air force and command and control centers, is the only way to end the bloodshed in Syria.

This will only happen if the workers and youth overthrow Assad themselves the interference of NATO and Russian imperialists has only brought decades of bloodshed and tragedy to the peoples of the Middle East.

That is why bringing the troops home early has become the prime objective of Western politicians who are engaged in the region. The West needs to get out before the bloodletting starts again in earnest.

Already, a tremendous price has been paid in lives and treasure for this conflict. The violence has included civil wars among Palestinians and Algerians the bloodshed in Iraq and terrorist campaigns in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

Few thought it possible that they would turn against each other in a bloodletting of such brutal enormity that it is very unlikely that Bosnia Herzegovina can ever become a successful multicultural society.

Nigeria, which is giving Taylor sanctuary, is obliged to turn him over to the Special Court for Sierra Leone, created by the United Nations in 2003 to prosecute those responsible for the bloodletting in West Africa s in the 1990 s.

He was removed from office in 2006, following a bloodless military coup that was supported by the Bangkok middle class, whose members took to the streets in yellow T shirts (the color of the Thai monarchy).

Australia commended Egypt's hosting of the February summit in Sharm el Sheih, which promoted agreement between President Abbas and Prime Minister Sharon to formally end more than four years of bloodshed.

The summit meeting held at Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, on 8 February 2005 produced a series of commitments including a halt to violence and military activities aimed at rebuilding trust and breaking the cycle of bloodshed.

So neither money nor military power alone can end the bloodshed, and diplomacy with the less militant Chechen leader Aslan Maskhadov seems unlikely, for three reasons.