Word: acceptant
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...speech the President made defeating this particular hodgepodge the defining mission of his presidency. His take-it-or-leave-it offer to the Taliban was really just a feign at rushing headlong into a military assault on Afghanistan; there?s no way that the Kabul crowd would accept the president?s demand that they open their country for inspection and "hand over every terrorist and every person in their support structure." That?d be most of the Taliban regime...
...likely seems, the people who murdered thousands and themselves last week. That means that they and I belonged to the same subset of the human race, the community of the religious. It means that I have special responsibility for them. It means that, as a believing Jew, I must accept complete responsibility for the consequences of my own beliefs and, as a rabbi, of my own teachings. I must be eternally vigilant regarding both the implications of what I intend and the implications of how I am understood...
...speech the President made defeating this particular hodgepodge the defining mission of his presidency. His take-it-or-leave-it offer to the Taliban was really just a feign at rushing headlong into a military assault on Afghanistan; there?s no way that the Kabul crowd would accept the president?s demand that they open their country for inspection and "hand over every terrorist and every person in their support structure." That?d be most of the Taliban regime...
...comes from accountability and the opportunity for false information to be corrected elsewhere, something lacking in countries without a free press; from the comparison of information from different sources with different interests; from requiring extraordinary evidence for extraordinary claims; from providing a forum for criticism and being willing to accept...
...aftermath of such an attack one of the most challenging aspects of recovery is accepting the element of horrible surprise as an x-factor. It?s almost impossible to accept that we can never be prepared for terrorism, that while we can try to live our lives in the safest and most responsible ways, our sheer existence, the fact that we draw breath, makes us viable targets for those who hate us. Ironically, of course, that sense of vulnerability, however terrifying, is also what frees us: We cannot control what happens to us, so we might as well live...