Beware of Wounded Lions

A wounded man can still kill you.

You're like a wounded animal. You trust no one.

Only the slaughtered beast knows the agony of the knife, Master.

It's not me. It's a lady over there in the first wagon.

I will seek that which was lost, and will bring back that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick but the fat and the strong I will destroy I will feed them in justice.

I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick but I will destroy the fat and the strong I will feed them with judgment.

Then the same woman and a man loaded the wounded man into the vehicle and drove away.

I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.

And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.

We saw his hands that the nails had pierced and his wounded side and we knew indeed that he was the Lord.

Bhutto initially saw this as an opportunity to end her exile and ease herself into the prime ministership with a politically wounded partner.

In the meantime, however, the urgency of restoring a sense of normalcy and hope to a dramatically wounded society warrants thoughtful and deep analyses.

Two Palestinians were killed instantaneously, and a third wounded Palestinian was taken by the illegal settler to another area where he shot him dead at point blank range.

That intervention exemplifies the failure of the wounded beast theory of diplomacy, according to which the US could do anything after the terrorist attacks of 2001, with the ends justifying the means.

Several eyewitnesses told me and confirmed that when they had reached the place where the incident had taken place, they saw the injured man and he was yelling at them apos Help me, I need help, please take me to the hospital! apos .

There is a hint, though, in a brief mention in the middle of the story of a father looking over his wounded sons in a hospital and declaring that, Now Americans are shooting randomly at anything that moves.

Or Swingers, the 1996 worldwide hit movie about a twenty something guy in Hollywood and his band of male friends who drag him to Las Vegas to mend his broken heart.

Iraq was afflicted with that scourge under Saddam's regime, whose policy was to rule or destroy people and property with all types of lethal weapons. Today the Iraqi people are paying the price of countering terrorism, because it is their homes that are on the frontlines of the battle. The world must support Iraqis in fighting the war against terrorism and the remnants of the Baath regime so that it can move towards democracy.

But we celebrate. Our streets are filled with sparkling lights, to help us forget that today s Good Samaritan is a non for profit organization obsessed with writing the success story of the wounded man he just saved, in order leverage that success to increase the number of beneficiaries. Yet we don t have time for a smile.

There is, once again, virtually no mention of the catastrophe for civilians etched against that desert sky. There is a hint, though, in a brief mention in the middle of the story of a father looking over his wounded sons in a hospital and declaring that, Now Americans are shooting randomly at anything that moves.