Word: enmeshing
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...pour kerosene on the Sunni-Shi'ite war that has consumed Iraq, threatens to erupt in Lebanon and could spread to Pakistan and the gulf. The U.S. can't completely distance itself from the Saudis--in our weakened position, we need their help. But neither should we let them enmesh us in a Middle Eastern cold war, fought along religious lines. That's why Washington needs to make its own overtures toward Iran, so that our relationship with the region's biggest Shi'ite power doesn't go through Riyadh. Turning U.S. foreign policy over to the Saudis is perilous...
...died, was buried, and rose again on the third day in payment for our sins. These are truths wholly independent of political issues, and they are the central concerns of any serious Christian believer. Although they long ago foreswore the Popes authority, the leaders of the Churches who constantly enmesh themselves in politics would do well to hear the late John Paul IIs exhortation to not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal politics...
...world being described. My reading of “Chloe” elicited many loud “I’ve totally been there” chuckles, particularly when Krinsky gives us students slipping in the mud at the Harvard-Yale tailgate, the hopeless tangle of crushes that enmesh a group of friends, or the occasional high intellectual in-joke: “Les autres, are, after all, hell—unless they are fucking you on your desk,” she says, describing the relationship between a philosophy major undergrad and her Sartre-loving TA. These...
...Mahdi decides to go after him and resume fighting, then there will be a major catastrophe with food getting to the people. Then, the international community faces a very difficult decision of how it will intervene. Will it try it get food to the people -- and enmesh itself in the middle of a brutal civil war -- or will it watch people die of starvation...
...irreducible fact is that an invasion of Haiti would be less a military act than a political one. It would enmesh the U.S. in the governance of a country that, having only briefly experienced democracy, lacks the infrastructure to run an open, civil society. With its shattered economy and widespread unemployment, those institutions could take years, if not decades, to develop. In the end, perhaps the most telling fact is this: when the U.S. invaded Haiti in 1915, it did not leave for 19 years. And the country was brought no closer to a representative democracy...