Word: aptly
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...There's a sense in the military that we're more eager to get Osama bin Laden than the locals are, which is why it may require U.S. troops. But you're going to have pockets of local trouble for weeks, even months, and it's apt to be bloody. The U.S. doesn't want to get too involved in that, particularly if the anti-Taliban forces are keeping up the pressure...
Naturally, some athletes are frustrated with their lack of playing time in college commensurate with their playing time in high school. An apt example is the quarterback situation for the football squad. Sophomore Conor Black and junior J.C. Harrington left the team because their prospects for playing time seemed slim behind senior starter Neil Rose. Ironically, Rose was injured two weeks ago and freshman Ryan Fitzpatrick has had to step up and fill not only Rose’s shoes, but also the void left by potential superiors Black and Harrington...
...Afghanistan drags on without any bankable signs of progress. Webster's Collegiate dictionary defines a quagmire as "soft miry land that shakes or yields under the foot" and as "a difficult, precarious, or entrapping position." It has been part of the U.S. political lexicon ever since it seemed an apt description of the U.S. experience in Vietnam. In the last week Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has had to devote a considerable amount of his time to explaining why it's a misnomer for the current situation in Afghanistan. He was responding to the steady rumble from the media, politicians, Afghanistan...
...convince the citizens and minorities in those countries of bin Laden’s wrongful message, clearly establishing that the war is against al Qaeda and the Taliban, not against Islam. For this purpose, the U.S. should encourage governments and leaders in those countries, who are clearly most apt than American leaders at influencing Islamic audiences, to address their people and convince them of the invalidity of bin Laden’s claims...
...gain anything from studying history, it is the ability to learn from the past. Since Sept. 11, when war began to seem imminent, many have been concerned that we might repeat the mistakes of the Japanese internment during World War II. It seems, though, that there is a more apt and less hypothetical comparison between America’s relationship to Arabs today and our country’s relationship to Native Americans more than a century...