For Americans to leave this threat to Israel, a beleaguered democracy of 7 million, is a feckless non-policy.
It goes without saying, I hope, that the perceptions I mentioned at the beginning of these remarks -- namely, of an American government that is feckless and unreliable -- perceptions that I regret to say are as accurate as they are becoming widely held in the U.S. and abroad, only serve to compound these unpalatable trends.
Yet as Europe's immediate response to the Dubai operation makes clear, Europe itself has abandoned the sober-minded pursuit of its own interests, in favor of cowardly, feckless, self-defeating rhetoric.
But as Beijing reckons much of Europe to be feckless and feather-bedded with welfare and pensions, it may attach a few strings.
The idea of doing a dirty Lassie movie is wittier than its execution in this go-for-the-gonads sci-fi flick about a huge guard dog named Max who becomes ultra-possessive of a feckless TV reporter (Ally Sheedy) after she springs him from an animal-experimentation lab.
Rather, the voters were fed-up after decades of increasingly feckless and aimless LDP rule, of which the succession of one-year or less failed LDP prime ministers and cabinets was judged a terminal condition.
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Though New Orleanians narrowly re-elected their feckless mayor, Ray Nagin, in 2006, that election now seems an aberration.
But look, he has also on other occasions said, when he gets - once John McCain gets to the required number of delegates - and that really is feckless, and I think Mike Huckabee will see it that way a little later on this week - and pull out.
Rice pushed the US on the road toward accepting Iran as a nuclear power when she opted to join the EU-3 in their feckless negotiations with the mullahs in May 2007.
If this feckless Congress doesn't enact Pence-Cantor soon, the White House should be bold and institute indexing by executive order.
They aren't feckless, they aren't work-shy and they aren't scroungers.
Yet the IRS seems to go overboard, often painting an abused spouse as a willing accomplice to her tax-cheat husband or a feckless ignoramus spending money she should have known was owed for taxes.
If he is to lead our country, or even just his party, Romney must move past applause lines and catch up to a world that has moved on from Cold War-style fear mongering and feckless grandstanding.
As the Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist William Safire observed in the New York Times, China may have been encouraged to take this step by the Clinton-Gore team's feckless response to Vladimir Putin's ruthless bid to consolidate his political position.
"Financialphobes can be intelligent people who are high achievers in most areas of their lives - they are not irresponsible, feckless or spendthrift, " said Dr Brendan Burchell, of Cambridge University's faculty of social and political sciences.
Press further and Republican grassroots angst about government spending is, a lot of the time, a belief that under Barack Obama, the country has drifted into un-American levels of redistribution from hard-working taxpayers to a more feckless underclass.
Two weeks ago, the United States took an important stand against the United Nation's record of feckless and contemptuous treatment of human rights issues - and its abject failure to take meaningful steps to take long-overdue corrective actions.
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One looks at a handsome young stage actor like Stephen Campbell Moore, who, as the hero, Adam Fenwick-Symes, has penetrating eyes, and one thinks, Why is this fine-looking young man behaving in such a feckless and stupid way?
He captures both the unpredictable menace of Mesrine and his near-comical showmanship the sense of a feckless free spirit who grew convinced, thanks in large part to the media, that he was something greater.
More than his failure to pass his domestic agenda on health care and global warming despite his Democratic Party's control over both houses of Congress, Iran's announcement on Thursday that it is a nuclear power and has the capacity to produce weapons-grade uranium is a testament to Obama's feckless incompetence.
In his mid-20s Scott Harrison, by his own admission, was a feckless New York City party boy, a nightclub promoter who lived amidst the bright lights, booze and cocaine of his chosen scene.
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Like his feckless predecessor, Mr. Obama deserves the lowest grade for continuing to appease political-militant Islam, as evidenced by the tender care and deep respect he bestowed on bin Laden during the burial at sea.
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