Word: squandering
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...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...
Unfortunately, Chomsky continues to squander this potential by making decisions that destroy his credibility in the eyes of most Americans. In perhaps his most infamous move, on the day after the Sept. 11 attacks, Chomsky stated: “The terrorist attacks were major atrocities. In scale they may not reach the level of many others, for example, Clinton’s bombing of the Sudan with no credible pretext, destroying half its pharmaceutical supplies and killing unknown numbers of people.” As a result of his poor timing and unwillingness to moderate his tone, his message...
...Those kinds of concerns don't faze Wacharee, the IT consultant. Like many in Thailand, she views the favorable conditions created by the Thaksin government as a second chance at prosperity, one she doesn't intend to squander. "I'm starting a business that I know will work," she says. "I'll be contributing to the Thai economy. Imagine, 18 months ago I didn't even have a future. Now I'm thinking of getting rich...
...many of us, these four years, bookended by high school overachievement and grueling ascents to professional success, will be the only significant span of time when we aren’t bound to impress anybody. We ought not to squander it. Straight out hedonism is seldom advisable—but a lack of self-consciousness is. When George Plimpton ’48 died last week, obituaries didn’t mention his GPA, or the brilliance of his pronouncements in section. They did include a description of his disrupting a Lexington ceremony honoring Paul Revere’s ride...
...overextended. Our attempts at nation building place our young men and women in harm's way, spend our national treasure, and squander what goodwill there was after 9/11. Our administration was great at war preparation, but has no patience with peace. We are in for sore times. Michael Lord Texas...