Word: weaknessness
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As the skirmishes gathered momentum on cable TV, the White House attempted to turn a position of weakness into an opportunity: with its opponents overplaying their hand, the Administration scheduled a series of town halls with Obama to calm the situation. "People who want to keep things the way they...
Despite its frustrations with Karzai, however, the U.S. is not pinning its hopes on the incumbent being replaced. "Although the election is very important, It would be a mistake to put too much importance on its outcome," suggests Stephen Biddle of the Council on Foreign Relations. "The question of which...
You feel that the failure to follow through on those promises was entirely due to the weakness of the United States government. Were there any actions by the Sudanese government that contributed to that as well?
My mentor teacher and I taught Othello to our Prep for AP English class and, in my rereading of the tragedy, I found one character who struck me as unmistakably familiar. This one character has knowledge, power, and smarts, knows when to show sympathy, or when to march up indignation...
The basic assumption of the U.S. political strategy in Afghanistan appears to be that the Taliban cannot be engaged from a position of weakness. Perceptions are exceedingly important in a warlord society with a long-established tradition of local commanders switching sides to back the force deemed most likely to...