Word: cogent
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...figured that, when he was offered the chance to play himself, more or less, as a hapless has-been who gets enmeshed in a bank robbery, he had nothing to lose. He was right: JCVD is the best movie he ever made (granted, not the highest encomium), and a cogent, probing critique on celebrity in its downalator phase...
...can’t help but feel that his editors ought to have taken another look at the manuscript before it went to print. To be fair, the book is not entirely lacking in insight. Leitch’s essay about steroids is a particularly cogent meditation on sports’ most-discussed topic, if only because its thesis is one rarely voiced in the media: the truth is, we just don’t care. At the end of the day, Barry Bonds is an incredible athlete, even if he was using steroids, and sports is hardly the only...
...complexity, and as for depriving al-Qaeda of publicity, many would argue that successful prosecution of the war on terror actually makes visible battles and results necessary. But it isn't a forensic psychiatrist's job to come up with counterterrorist strategy. It is their job to offer a cogent alternative to the "Why do they hate us?" hand-wringing that dominates much writing about the terrorist mind-set, and Sageman has done that with great clarity...
None of Sageman's solutions are new or achievable soon, and not everyone agrees that they would work. But it isn't a forensic psychiatrist's job to come up with counterterrorist strategy. It is his job to offer a cogent alternative to the "Why do they hate us?" hand-wringing that dominates much writing about the terrorist mind-set, and Sageman has done that with great clarity...
...journeys through the tragic modern history of Afghanistan, beginning in the 1980s with the fall of the Soviet-backed communist regime and moving through the Taliban years into the twenty-first century. Along the way, she chronicles the shifting alliances and sentiments that plagued the war-torn country. Her cogent analysis and engaging narrative provide a window into a country so often obscured and, she argues, outright ignored by the West. Gannon’s narrative arc spans social and political divisions, with interviews that range from the most senior-ranking government officials in both the mujahideen and Taliban eras...