As Tom forcefully demonstrates, that word points us to the true symptom of American intentions: the "enduring" bases that the Army Corps of Engineers began building immediately after the fall of Saddam, and which have "endured" through all the vagaries of the war.
Instead, the ensemble intends to establish enduring bases throughout the borough.
The US needs counterterrorism tools - meaning military bases - on an enduring basis from which to strike al Qaeda, perhaps Islamic State, and other extremists in the region even after 2016.
This does not mean that all relationships will persist, but it does explain why some dyadic relations become intense and enduring bases for transaction relations.
As for Camp Bondsteel, it was the "enduring" military base that Washington gained from the wars for the remains of Yugoslavia.
This, after all, is exactly what the General Petraeus did in the past year in Iraq, separating Sunni fighters who want a stake in Iraq from the foreign intrigues of Al Qaeda, which has no enduring local base.
And it is a testament to enduring friendship based on Remi's own chumminess with a beloved Chinese student.
It's probably harder to build an enduring majority based on, say, gun rights than it was to do so by doling out local jobs.
I, along with millions of other Kenyans, urge them to find an enduring settlement based on justice, fairness and the common good.
"We cannot build an enduring peace based on freedom by ourselves, and we do not want to," Mr. McCain said in a major foreign policy address in Los Angeles in late March.
