"That is the soft underbelly of Kabul, " said a coalition special operations forces official in Afghanistan.
But worries persist that Yudhoyono's nation is a soft underbelly in resistance to a possible avian-flu pandemic emanating from Asia.
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Target the soft underbelly of the Bush Administration: its economic team.
This area is part of the soft underbelly of southern Europe.
Under the previous Labour government, however, high-risk flights "were missed" and former independent reviewer of anti-terrorism legislation Lord Carlisle had called private aviation the UK's "soft underbelly", he alleged.
The difference is that Philadelphia managed to avoid the soft underbelly that often lies below the big guns, thanks to their scouting department's knack for finding a host of unpolished gems.
More neutral observers agree that while Syria may indeed be fighting a covert struggle to defend its soft underbelly, the Syrians are unlikely to control any but a few of the varied groups seeking to undermine the Lebanese government.
It's a legal product with harmful effects so governments should rather focus their attention on educating people rather than going and trying and demonize the industry, drive extreme regulation, drive extreme taxation and now even right down to the most vulnerable in value chain, which are the farmers, the soft underbelly of the sector.
Unfortunately, the contribution such a long overdue initiative will be actually able to make to reducing this vulnerability will be far less than is required unless the executive branch and the Congress also address what might be called the "soft underbelly of homeland insecurity": our grievously problematic immigration situation and the dysfunctional policies and practices that contribute to it.
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