Word: weak
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...must support the coalition in Iraq. It doesn't matter how much of a mistake we think we made going in. We have to stick around and clean up the mess. If the coalition were to pull out now, it would leave behind a very unstable, weak nation at the mercy of its neighbors. Iran considers itself the new big dog in the yard and is fueling the civil war in Iraq. How long would it be before Iran moved in for the kill? If it were allowed to take over Iraq, Iran would be the most powerful nation...
...other lesson Colombia provides is the importance of strong leadership. Guatemala's weak government is struggling to impose order and Iraq's central government is incapable of providing security. Uribe's strength has gained him the support of Colombian society and is giving the country a chance. The question now is whether he is strong enough, and sincere enough, to further build public trust by improving the country's human rights record and going after tainted officials in government and the military...
...former undergraduate student who transferred from Harvard to Stanford in 1998, right after his freshman year said his woes were related to Harvard's social life, namely what he saw as the weak dorm and house community here...
...White House. The legal outcome was never in doubt. Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald had been massing evidence of perjury for months and then unveiled it piece by piece until even the defendant chose not to testify in his own defense. Libby's highly touted defense lawyers, meanwhile, seemed weak and scattered. Their promise to reveal how the White House had left Libby to be the fall guy for higher-ups was introduced and then abandoned. And it would have taken them down a road Libby steadfastly refused to travel: the one that led to the Vice President's door...
...Other social conservative leaders have warned that Rudy is soft on gays, bad on abortion, weak on guns; it's his policies that make them queasy. His promise to populate the courts with Scalia clones may be enough to appease some of them. But for Land and those he speaks for, the problem is personal. A recent New York Times story detailing Giuliani's estrangement from his children was just the latest reminder of the former New York mayor's baroque marital history...