Word: futileã
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...this country’s frontier westward was that there was very little organization of the resistance from Native Americans, and what there was was mostly too late. Some tribes made treaties; other tribes tried raids, or open battles, until they were wiped out, but any resistance offered was futile??€”the expansion of our border was never really checked or slowed until it reached the Pacific Ocean. Though most of bin Laden’s rhetoric is laced with references to Islam, he mostly preaches against the U.S. rather than for Allah. It seems likely that his motivations...
...indicate this, while hedging his bets by citing others who disagree. It is Bok’s attempt at even-handedness here, as elsewhere, that both lengthens the book and makes it less interesting. His attempt to reduce what are often matters of opinion to matters of fact is futile??€”the extensive facts he cites tend to be balanced, and thus inconclusive, so he is forced to give his opinion in the end. From a man of his stature, it is precisely this that we wish to hear...