Unlike the NATO press machine, the Taliban are willing to give details, and while some are patently exaggerated or wrong, others have just enough elements of truth that they cannot be entirely ignored.
Still, enough threads of truth weave through the theory to make "Maafa 21," the documentary whose name is a Swahili word used to refer to the slavery era, persuasive to some viewers, at least at a recent screening at Morris Brown College, a historically black institution in Atlanta.
While it is not hard to see Khartoum's interest in building this line of defense -- after all, if a racial or ethnic component to the conflict can be discounted, it fairly negates the accusations of genocide -- there are enough grains of truth to almost all the government's defenses to muddy the charges made against it.
We do not, today, speak often enough of the truth that we could lose it all.
But the genius of all great con-men is to tell you just enough of the truth that you'll believe them and day by day, appointment by appointment, Tweet by Tweet, Donald J. Trump is showing his cards.
"Enhanced interrogations", drones, drones and more drones, plus hints of Reagan with a president who may have Alzheimer's – there are enough of those truth-y details to give you a shock of realism.
The evidence is enough for truth under normal circumstances, but because of abnormal interference the evidence falls short.
Mr. Tillman was enough of a loner, truth seeker, adventurer and physical marvel to embody the virtues that Mr. Krakauer has himself exemplified and celebrated in others.
In a case that started out looking almost impossible to win, Hale revealed enough of the "whole truth" to demonstrate to the jury that the police officers were following legitimate witness leads.
There is enough of a half-truth in this idea, both in its erotic truth and political halo, to make it seductive, and not just to the French.
