Maybe it's because the idea of declaring satisfaction isn't something we talk about.
It is a role that goes with the fact that America is now, more than ever, fully engaged almost everywhere because of its declared war on terrorism.
These include anger over a deteriorating economy, worry at signs that the president's men have been extensively rearming and suspicions that foreign powers, including Saudi Arabia and the United States, still back Mr Saleh because of his declared opposition to jihadist groups linked to al-Qaeda, which remains active in parts of southern Yemen.
Whether we went into Iraq because of the declared (but baseless) belief that Saddam Hussein possessed W.M.D.'s or to gain access to Iraqi oil, it is clear that the democracy-exporting justification was a Johnny-come-lately rationale for this imperialistic venture.
However, because this was a fiercely proud Russian-run hospital, and because the global implications of declaring diplomacy dead are so grave, it is being made to look like it is staggering on.
Based on model assumptions, causation can be inferred, but because of the impossibility of declaring with absolute certainty that there are no additional unmeasured causal variables, these assumptions cannot be guaranteed.
Still, Mr. Sandalow and representatives of American biotechnology and agriculture companies stopped far short of declaring victory because major issues remain unsettled.
We're thinking of declaring independence because we've won so many medals".
Baldwin said she's is in the process of declaring bankruptcy because her credit was ruined when she went to prison.
Forty years later, Homes has made a life of creating stories, because, as she declared, "If you don't write the book you have to write, everything breaks".
