Word: weak
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...says she is particularly interested in the double-bind faced by female politicians. “Either you are effeminate and you’re too weak to be a leader, or you project strength and confidence and you are not behaving the way people want you to behave as a woman,” she explains, though she says that she did not particularly feel this bind during her time as president of the Harvard Democrats...
...beginning, the film seems to suggest that good men go to war, and weak men stay home. But what it's really saying is that the men we send to war are at risk of returning broken, diseased and damaged and that those changes can be a danger for those around them - including, and especially, the ones they love most...
...Vietnam, which sought to scale down another foreign policy doctrine - containment - that had gotten out of hand. And Nixon's experience offers both a warning and an example: pulling back from your predecessor's overblown commitments can be vital. The risk is that it can make you look weak or immoral, or both...
...Shabab. Though not as far-reaching or well-known as al-Qaeda, the Somalia-based al-Shabab is particularly troubling to American officials due to its active recruitment of U.S. citizens - particularly from the large Somali community in and around Minneapolis - to join its battle against Mogadishu's weak interim government. In October 2008, the first known American suicide bomber - a 26-year-old Somali-American fighting with al-Shabab - blew himself up in northern Somalia. In one of the broadest domestic terrorism investigations since Sept. 11, federal officials have charged 14 people with recruiting an estimated 20 Americans...
...world's most lawless - has killed more than 19,000 people in the past three years alone.) Al-Shabab's membership is estimated to number in the thousands; its fighters are identifiable by their red-and-white scarves. The group began fighting Ethiopian troops and the weak interim government almost immediately after the invasion; today it controls large areas of the nation's central and southern regions. Al-Shabab carries out near daily attacks against the government as well as against aid groups and African Union peacekeepers operating in the country. Its members are mainly Somalis, though it has also...