Ambivalent Arabia

We're deeply ambivalent about the truth.

Young people are generally ambivalent about the legal drinking age.

Unfortunately, the language on the veto contained in the resolution of the group of four is still ambivalent.

We are disappointed at reported cases of non compliance with nuclear non proliferation commitments and an ambivalent commitment to disarmament.

And in fact, as man began to understand more his complex and ambivalent nature, harmony grew more complex to reflect it.

If this happens when we claim to love trees, I shudder to think what would happen if we were ambivalent about them? Or thought we could live without them?

That prevalent sentiment was evident despite some ambivalent comments around the table on the draft outcome document (A 60 L.1) to be adopted by the Assembly later this evening.

Immediately following the coup, the European Union adopted an ambivalent position toward it. This, too, is reminiscent of Algeria in 1992, when most European governments supported the annulment of the Islamists electoral victory.

Today s flux in the Middle East is a highly ambivalent affair, because the situation can improve or (more likely) deteriorate. But one thing is certain if the present impasse continues, the situation will only get worse.

And finally, of course, I think it's fair to say that a large part of the reason why the public is so ambivalent about aging now is the global trance I spoke about earlier, the coping strategy.

But the double game proved unsustainable the Islamists were less inclined than their now ambivalent patron to draw sophistical distinctions between one kind of enemy and another. The result was two assassination attempts against Musharraf in December 2003.

Yet the World Bank s attitude toward the ICSID remained ambivalent. This was especially evident concerning compliance and enforcement, and matters came to a head with the deluge of cases brought against Argentina stemming from its 2001 2002 economic crisis.

But the downside of this aspirational language and philosophy can be a perpetual, personal restlessness. Many men and women in the rest of the world especially in the developing world observe this in us and are ambivalent about it.

Among them were cases of non compliance with nuclear non proliferation commitments, evidence of the existence of a clandestine nuclear network, ambivalent commitment to disarmament and the threat of weapons of mass destruction falling into the hands of terrorists.

Yet many economists are as ambivalent about global rules and institutions as ordinary people are. They worry that international bodies, lacking democratic oversight, make it easier for the rich, powerful, and well connected to run things to their own advantage.

Certainly, globalization continues to give rise to ambivalent feelings, on the one hand because of its ability to create wealth and improve the material well being of our societies, but, on the other, because of the phenomenon of exclusion that it creates.

They were not discouraged by his ambivalent perception of them (by turns celebrating their traditional domesticity and glorifying their sexual objectification). But Italian society has changed most women are now working, and they are no longer willing to accept Belusconi s anachronistic and outrageous chauvinism.

On the other side stand the established democracies, hesitant and ambivalent in their support of the rebels. In 1930 s Spain, of course, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy fully supported General Francisco Franco s rebellion, while the democracies reluctantly offered scant help to the Spanish Republic.

In practice, as a small country in a troubled neighborhood and with North Korea a constant source of tension it lives in existential anxiety. And Park, whose victory has not diminished her people s ambivalent attitude toward her father, must know that healing the obvious divisions in South Korean society will not be easy.

The main actors fall into three categories open revisionists, like Russia and the Islamic State those ready to fight to protect a minimum of order, such as the United States, France, and Great Britain and ambivalent states including key regional players in the Middle East, such as Turkey and Iran whose actions fail to match their rhetoric.

From Israel s viewpoint, the rise to power of Sunni political Islam throughout the region over the past two years will lead to an ambivalent outcome. While the weakening and rollback of Iran serves Israeli strategic interests, Israel will have to reckon with Sunni Islamist power everywhere in its vicinity, leading directly to a strengthening of Hamas.

Brazil s ambivalent stance on human rights and democracy under Lula goes hand in hand with its attitude toward nuclear proliferation. A signatory in the 1960 s of the Tlatelolco Treaty, which banned nuclear weapons from Latin America, Brazil dismantled its enrichment process and research facilities during the 1990 s and ratified the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty in 1998.

Just as he dithered over going to war with the US, Hirohito was hopelessly ambivalent about how to end it. The new record reports that Hirohito told his closest adviser, Privy Seal Kōichi Kido, on September 26, 1944 If one could come to a peace without the question of disarmament or war responsibility, I don t care if our conquered territories are taken away .

Preventing Qaddafi from rebuilding the wall of fear that fell in Tunisia and Egypt is essential if the Arab spring is not to be succeeded by a new winter of discontent. What is now done in the sky over Libya sanctioned by international law and, unlike in Iraq in 2003, with the ambivalent political support of the Arab League is fundamental if the Arab revolutionaries are to take a positive view of the West.

Despite a long history of alliance dating back to the American Revolution and including two world wars, France has always had a somewhat ambivalent attitude toward the US, and the Iraq War was not the first time that a controversial security policy undercut America s attractiveness in France. Polls show similar reactions after the Suez Crisis of 1956, the Vietnam War in the late 1960 s and early 1970 s, and the deployment of intermediate range missiles in Europe in the early 1980 s.