This is an awkward argument for Cameron at the moment.
In any case, it would be an awkward argument for anyone to make who also argues that the absence of such attacks proves that the "war on terror" has been a success).
Instead of having to make a choice between this new missile or that old tank, the Pentagon will doubtless get both.But Mr Rumsfeld's rescued reputation is not merely a result of standing by his post, and dodging an awkward argument.
As Michael and Jan drive home together, they have an awkward argument regarding their future together.
"You understand the English language, right?" asked King condescendingly during an awkward argument.
Which is to say that, after the low-level angst of an afternoon of awkward relatives, arguments over how to carve the turkey et al, who isn't secretly yearning to experience the kind of ludicrously, liberatingly awful day which once resulted in Peggy Mitchell taking a baseball bat to the Queen Vic? No? OK, just me then.
There are loud arguments, awkward toasts, bad sex, confrontations with the help and a few moments of serene and luminous bliss.
This whole segment was basically set up to sow dissent, because the world really, really needed one more awkward and tendentious argument.
Either what he took to be its greatest source of strength, the necessity argument, generates awkward and serious difficulties for this "reconciling project", or his liberty arguments have been misunderstood.
He disliked, and sometimes dodged, painful arguments with awkward colleagues.
