Word: feckless
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...sandwiches he nibbles for Queen and Country, or however skilfully he promotes British business as the U.K.'s Special Representative for International Trade and Investment (public records show he undertook 446 engagements in 2006, excluding business meetings), Elizabeth's second son never shakes off his tabloid image as a feckless playboy - an image photographers find profitable to reinforce...
...coyly appeals for decorum. "There should be some constraints, some respect for modesty," she coos in a smoky alto. But the hint of a smile on her lips betrays her: she's loving it. And why not? So blinding is Royal's star wattage that her opponents seem feckless in her wake. "They're not campaigning against a person," sighs a top aide to former Finance Minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn, her main party rival, "but against a phenomenon...
...weren't there, my guess is the local Sunni insurgents would quickly turn against the al-Qaeda terrorists, many of whom are foreigners, and kick them out." That sounded like wishful thinking. I told Webb that most top military strategists-even those appalled by the Bush Administration's feckless prosecution of the war-didn't think his strategy would work, that Iraq would fall into chaos without American troops...
...slithering around in a closed, inescapable space - the aforementioned airplane - threatening its customary human cargo, which will be familiar to anyone who remembers passenger list of, say, The High and the Mighty or the Airport series of yore. You know this crowd - the brave, the mean, the selfish, the feckless, most of whom, when the crisis peaks, are capable of being whipped into an effective fighting force by a peerless leader, in this instance personified by Samuel L. Jackson's Neville Flynn, an FBI agent escorting a witness (Nathan Phillips) from Hawaii to Los Angeles to testify against a crime...
...against al-Qaeda and insisting that any Democratic reservations about Iraq were a sign of weakness. This was infuriating. It was Bush's disastrous decision to go to war-and worse, to go to war with insufficient resources-that transformed Iraq into a terrorist Valhalla. It is Bush's feckless prosecution of the war that has created the current morass, in which a U.S. military withdrawal could lead to a regional conflagration. Rove may avert another electoral embarrassment this November with the same old demagoguery, but his strategy has betrayed the nation's best interests. It has destroyed any chance...