Word: distruster
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...create a police force and secret service that will fight the gangs of insurgents. If Iraqis cannot neutralize those killers, outside troops cannot help. Also, the U.S. and its allies need to explain in Arabic to the Iraqis what the coalition forces are doing in their country: bringing peace. Distrust of the U.S. military is growing, not abating. This is a public relations failure that must be corrected. Edouard Prisse Amsterdam...
...educators opt out—the National Education Association (NEA) annually passes a resolution condemning home education. School boards and parent-teacher associations regret the loss of some of the most involved parents from their midst. Social services case-workers, though great people in almost any other context, frequently distrust home educators or are unaware of state laws regarding home education and so harass those who practice it, including—full disclosure—this author’s family...
...South Korea's democracy. His main selling point was not his allergy to the U.S. (genuine as that may be), but rather his outsider's r?sum?: his manifest lack of experience in Seoul's payola-driven politics, a system that the great majority of voters already viewed with distrust and disdain. Once in office, Roh's amateurish and inconstant performance, as well as his own cynical attempts to game the system, did little to allay popular misgivings about the health of the democracy. Recall that, after barely eight months in office, a frustrated and tactically outclassed Roh toyed with pulling...
...Spaniards lashed out at their own government. On the eve of the election, for example, furious protestors marched through the streets of Madrid, chanting “Our Dead, Your War.” But voters were most angered by Azanar’s poor handling of the crisis. Distrust of the government had already begun to grow in recent months, as official claims that Iraq possessed WMD’s proved unfounded. This distrust only deepened in the immediate aftermath of the bombings, after Azanar assigned blame to the Basque terrorist group ETA, an act many Spaniards believed...
...main characters of Green’s film spent ten years hiding from the world. And in a time when even the Weather Underground’s deathless bombings strike any number of deeply-felt chords, Green says he found that many of his subjects retained the same distrust of publicity...