It could be carnage by the end of the night.

We failed, and missed an opportunity to avoid the years of carnage that ensued.

In spite of those positive developments, however, the persistent and worsening carnage and mayhem caused by terrorism still seem to lurk everywhere.

A resurgent Taliban in its tribal areas has destabilized Pakistan. The recent carnage in Mumbai has prompted another standoff between nuclear armed India and Pakistan.

1. Demands that all parties to the conflict immediately cease hostilities, agree to a cease fire, and bring an end to the mindless violence and carnage engulfing Rwanda

One way to reduce the carnage not the only way, but a credible and legitimate way is to remove from their positions those who orchestrate and execute it.

And of course, our change in standards can outpace the change in behavior. One of the reasons violence went down is that people got sick of the carnage and cruelty in their time.

Not since the end of World War I have Arab countries undergone such a momentous upheaval. Conflict has broken out in no fewer than nine Arab countries, and the carnage has reached unimaginable levels of inhumanity.

And the last thing we want to see is drug resistant strains of HIV popping up all over the world, because it will make treatment more expensive and it could also restore the pre ARV carnage of HIV AIDS.

Worse yet, America waved the banner of democracy as it prosecuted its wars. But hopes for democracy, be it secular or Islamist, for the people concerned have been buried in the rubble and carnage of Baghdad, Beirut, and Kandahar.

Worse yet, America waved the banner of democracy as it prosecuted its wars. But hopes for democracy, be it secular or Islamist, for the people concerned have been buried in the rubble and carnage of Baghdad, Beirut, and Kandahar.

And that of all the technologies that were exploited to make that carnage come into being, probably the single group of technologies that cost the most lives were those that enable 50,000 people to live in two buildings 110 stories above the ground.

Ian Buruma, the British writer, claims that this European rage against America and Israel has to do with guilt and fear. The two world wars led to such catastrophic carnage that never again was interpreted as welfare at home, non intervention abroad.

It is indeed hard to believe that Russia and China, in particular, would be accommodating. Russia, for example, has exercised vetoes more than 100 times since 1946, most recently and unhappily four times since 2011 to block resolutions intended to halt the carnage in Syria.

Certainly, the pace of candidate countries approach to the Union depends on the speed of their reforms. And Europe, with the vital support of the United States, worked hard to stop the carnage of the 1990 s and subsequently to help rebuild the Balkan countries.

The military reacted by portraying the party and its supporters as an atheist force of evil which had to be annihilated. The resulting carnage was deliberate, systematic, and spanned the country, with the most horrific and intense violence in Central and East Java, Bali, and northern Sumatra.

If so, why are there so many unmitigated and unmediated crises around the world Syria s civil war, the carnage in Egypt, and deteriorating US Russian relations, to name just a few. The much ballyhooed twenty first century statecraft, it seems, is really not up to the job.

But, over time, the effort gained credibility. Though questions about the peace agreement s durability remain, with full disarmament yet to take place, the political autonomy granted to the country s Muslim areas seems to have persuaded most MILF fighters that the time has come to end the carnage.

Not only in Iran, but also in Lebanon, Palestine, and Iraq, history has shown that Islamists thrive amid political chaos and violence. Similarly in Pakistan, it is dangerous to bet that the country s pro democracy lawyers, intellectuals, and students will emerge victorious in the tumult and potential carnage of street politics.

But wars and violence move electorates to the hawkish right, and Israel s operation in Gaza was no exception. Many Palestinian citizens of Israel, disgusted by the large scale casualties inflicted on their brethren and believing that to vote would mean to endorse the political system responsible for the carnage stayed home once again.

Evidence is mounting that America s war in Iraq has killed tens of thousands of civilian Iraqis, and perhaps well over one hundred thousand. Yet this carnage is systematically ignored in the United States, where the media and government portray a war in which there are no civilian deaths, because there are no Iraqi civilians, only insurgents.

We are all Americans, wrote Le Monde on September 12, 2001. And so it was with most people in the Muslim world, who were as appalled as anyone else at the carnage of the terrorist attacks on Washington and New York. Indeed, when America responded to the attacks, almost no one mourned the fall of the Taliban, who were universally condemned for their fanaticism.

We are all Americans, wrote Le Monde on September 12, 2001. And so it was with most people in the Muslim world, who were as appalled as anyone else at the carnage of the terrorist attacks on Washington and New York. Indeed, when America responded to the attacks, almost no one mourned the fall of the Taliban, who were universally condemned for their fanaticism.

The world s first wave of economic globalization, led by the British Empire in the nineteenth century, came to an end literally with a bang on a Sunday afternoon in 1914, when Gavrilo Princip killed (with two uncannily well aimed bullets) Austria s Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife. The years that followed witnessed pan European carnage, instability throughout the 1920 s, and the rise of fascism and communism, culminating in the death of countless millions during World War II.

So this was the state of London in 1854, and in the middle of all this carnage and offensive conditions, and in the midst of all this scientific confusion about what was actually killing people, it was a very talented classic 19th century multi disciplinarian named John Snow, who was a local doctor in Soho in London, who had been arguing for about four or five years that cholera was, in fact, a waterborne disease, and had basically convinced nobody of this.