Word: complicitous
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...fire, in the near future, Israel must work with Arafat, and Israeli rhetoric and action have made compromise increasingly less likely. Arafat may not quite be an “enemy of the entire free world,” as Sharon has said, but Arafat has at least been complicit in suicide bombings. In addition, the Palestinian Authority’s connection to a weapons shipment from Iran contradicts Arafat’s claim to want peace. Nonetheless, Arafat is the only visible Palestinian leader who has any degree of legitimacy both with his people and with the West...
...guilty thrill to watch Mackey trample sleazebags and their liberties like a skinhead rhino--you feel complicit when he crosses the line, but he does get results. Mackey's rival, an ambitious precinct captain (Benito Martinez), is principled but ineffectual. Between them is Detective Claudette Wyms (C.C.H. Pounder), a middle-aged black woman in a white boys' clubhouse who keeps her own counsel...
Liberal college campuses like Harvard, Horowitz said, have been complicit in this weakening of national security...
...supporters think they are being patriotic, but in fact, they weaken the institutions they seek to protect. If we don’t speak up against the ills of our own governments, we relinquish the safeguards of democracy. And if the government then leads the nation astray, we become complicit in its crimes...
Whole villages are sometimes complicit in the sale of their children. The procurers, says Sompop Jantraka, a Thai activist who has saved thousands of girls from being sold into brothels, might be the wives of village heads. Teachers know which children are vulnerable, and some alert procurers for a fee. Sompop has seen pickup trucks leaving schools full of girls sold to brothels in what is called the "green harvest." A police officer is often at the wheel. "This is a war," Sompop says, "a war for our children...