Recognizing Hamas s popularity and therefore its political role will marginalize the organization s armed wing.

Today there was an armed attack at my school, perpetrated by one of the 10th grade students.

An armed attack by the United States, Israel, or both on Iran s nuclear facilities is another possibility.

They are even nuclear radicals, and many seek to obstruct the New START treaty with Russia, which would modestly advance the arms control agenda pursued by all Republican presidents since Richard Nixon. Tea Party candidates have even hinted that armed resistance to the US government may soon be justifiable.

Mahmoud Abbas unanimously elected as Fatah s leader and commander in chief made clear that while all options remain available for ending the occupation, the preference is still negotiations.

Yet the term armed resistance was missing from all the documents approved at the conference.

Tea Party candidates have even hinted that armed resistance to the US government may soon be justifiable.

In November 2000, Ollanta Humala led a small scale military uprising against Fujimori s dying regime.

An armed attack could also cause the Iranian public to rally around the government, reducing the chances that a more responsible leadership might emerge.

Capitol Hill Cubans, meanwhile, posts a reminder of what it calls the President's convenient memory lapse In 1970, now Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff was arrested and tried for her armed opposition to that country's military dictatorship (1964 1985).

In Syria, what started as peaceful pro democracy demonstrations deteriorated quickly into an armed insurrection of the Sunni majority against the hegemony of the Alawite sect, led by the Assad family.

But, in just the last few weeks, parts of the Sunni north have erupted in armed defiance of Hezbollah and the government that it dominates, and are openly supporting the Syrian rebels.

These citizens are guilty only of belonging to the three tribes (Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa) that spawned the rebels who took up arms against the government a few years ago.

It will be harder in countries where they did not, or where the economy remains largely in the hands of the armed forces. Armed Anglo American intervention, especially if it is not sanctioned by the United Nations, would do much to undermine liberals and democrats, who need all the credibility they can get.

Armed Anglo American intervention, especially if it is not sanctioned by the United Nations, would do much to undermine liberals and democrats, who need all the credibility they can get.

More recently, Russia and China prevented Security Council authorization of intervention to stop the human rights violations in Kosovo in 1999.

But, despite these potential drawbacks, an armed attack on Iran s nuclear facilities will and should remain a distinct possibility given the enormous strategic costs of a nuclear armed Iran.

BEIRUT Hezbollah s armed insurrection in May, which overran Beirut and other parts of Lebanon, has dealt a further blow to hopes of true state sovereignty in the country, strengthening Hezbollah and weakening the Western backed government.

This frustration, and Fahim's efforts to suppress it, lies at the heart of many of the recent bloody events now blamed on Taliban die hards, uncooperative local warlords, and Al Qaeda.

MEXICO CITY The last time Mexico experienced a political crisis more serious than the one it is undergoing today was in 1994, when a group of so called Zapatista guerrillas staged a semi armed uprising in the southern state of Chiapas.