The conflict in Yemen, which presents a dangerous enough commitment for all players, remains distinctive in its ability to unite the interests of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE, and Qatar.
Whether it's Stanley Kubrick cannibalizing an old Mitchell BNC camera to attach a lens designed by NASA, or Jackie Chan's insistence on doing his own, highly dangerous stunts, commitment at the expense of rationality can be the difference between a good film and a great film.
And there are many more SPEs out there, notably off the balance sheets of companies which securitise (ie, repackage and sell on to investors) large chunks of their assets.Another example of off-balance-sheet deceit is the dry-sounding yet potentially dangerous phenomenon of commitments, a variety of contingent liability.
It would also, the bankers say, send a dangerous message: a financial commitment isn't really a commitment.
"Last night, the president spoke about our dangerous debt and his commitment to bringing it down," Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, said at a news conference.
A deadline "would precipitate a year of dangerous uncertainty and wavering commitment to our allies," said Senator Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan, a leading foe of the provision and sponsor of the amendment to kill it.
"Just as it is necessary and proper for Congress to provide for the apprehension of escaped federal prisoners," he wrote, "it is necessary and proper for Congress to provide for the civil commitment of dangerous federal prisoners who would otherwise escape civil commitment as a result of federal imprisonment".
That's what makes Rove so dangerous -- his unbending commitment to derailing our understanding of how we've gotten to where we are.
But, he explained, "the question of referendum and the right of self-determination" would constitute a matter of great importance for the U.S. Despite his work with Soviet representatives in the early 1940s to forward the alliance, Welles saw Roosevelt's and Churchill's lack of commitment as dangerous.
