Word: distrust
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Trager said his goal in engineering the rally was to counteract what he views as “distaste of the government throughout the campus” and an “innappropriate distrust and second-guessing of our government at this present time...
After so many years of war, Kabul, formerly a cosmopolitan capital, has become a city of grinding poverty, distrust and fear under the watchful eyes of the Taliban and its heavy-handed religious police. Residents have learned to live alongside an array of the Taliban's so-called foreign guests, including Arabs, Chechens, Kurds, Uzbeks and Pakistanis--all believed to be in Afghanistan for secret military training. In the 1980s, Washington fueled Afghan resistance to the Soviet invasion by passing billions of dollars of covert aid to mujahedin fighters. Once the Soviets pulled out, the mujahedin turned on one another...
...think both sides—University and city—need to try to recast the relationship,” Murphy says. “I think some of the distrust that exists on both sides is born of an ignorance of sorts...
...there is a fundamental difference between such natural skepticism aimed at discovering the truth and the deep distrust of the “regular” world that invents for ourselves new myths—the kind of “X-Files” mentality that makes conspiracies ever more believable the more fantastic they become. The former, always imperfectly realized, is a difficult path to uncertain knowledge. The latter, unfortunately popular in our times, is nothing but a quick route to feelings of superiority, at least compared to the benighted masses who still believe what they...
...second round of weapons collection begins tomorrow, so the process is moving on and in a limited way things are looking hopeful. On the ground, distrust between the communities is profound, and there hasn't been any improvement in terms of relations between ethnic Albanians and Macedonians. There have been attacks on Albanian businesses in Skopje in recent weeks, and there's no sign of an imminent return home by people displaced in the fighting. The Albanians, in particular, are pretty pessimistic that this is real peace and that problems are now solved...