Word: squandering
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Within days after Saddam's capture, France, Germany and Russia announced their willingness to consider relieving Iraq's crushing debt burden. This was no burst of conscience about unrepayable billions lent Saddam to squander on grotesque palaces and grotesque weapons. This was the wind shifting America's way in Iraq--and the neutrals adjusting course accordingly...
Within days after Saddam's capture, France, Germany and Russia announced their willingness to consider relieving Iraq's crushing debt burden. This was no burst of conscience about unrepayable billions lent Saddam to squander on grotesque palaces and grotesque weapons. This was the wind shifting America's way in Iraq - and the neutrals adjusting course accordingly...
...broad but directionless platform. And once she took office, Lee proved an ineffective leader, and few of her projects came to fruition. Lee failed to use the momentum of Gusmorino’s successful year; Mahan and Blickstead must learn from her lesson to make sure they do not squander the unprecedented responsibility and power they will inherit from Chopra...
...Take Out the CLIPPERS at Falmouth”) for the football team; still more disturbing were the sexual implications of their decorating his bedroom. And apart from my feminist objections, I felt pretty bad about the fact that poor Shelli and her cohort had to squander their efforts on so marginal a football player as my brother...
Sympathy is fine. But if we "squander" it when we go to war to avenge our dead and prevent the next crop of dead, then to hell with sympathy. The fact is that the world hates us for our wealth, our success, our power. They hate us into incoherence. The Europeans, Ajami astutely observes, disdain us for our excessive religiosity (manifest, they imagine, by evolution being expelled from schools while prayer is ushered back in)--while the Arab world despises us as purveyors of secularism. We cannot win for losing. We are widely reviled as enemies of Islam...