This roving point of view has a bearing on the harsh streak that runs through Taylor's writing.
Or are they of the opinion that a harsh dictatorship run by an Arab is preferable to any outside intervention, even one that promises to be temporary?
Eleven men from Uzbekistan survived the battle at Qala Jangi but now fear that they will be deported home, where they would face brutal treatment and even death under the harsh system run by President Islam Karimov.
Sergey Kislyak, a senior member of Russia's international affairs committee, and former ambassador to the U.S., vowed that Moscow's response would be "harsh," state-run RIA Novosti reported.
"He was an artist, a university professor with no experience, but he managed under harsh conditions to run a country of 35 million people through trial and error," said Muhammad Atrianfar, who served as deputy interior minister under Mr. Moussavi, and later became a journalist.
News accounts noted his flubbed speech lines and raised questions about his willingness to debate, his plan for a huge tax cut and his party's efforts to run harsh attack advertisements.
After waiting for about five minutes, while replays of press reports of al-Shabab's notoriously harsh justice system run through my head, he comes back and tells us we are free to continue our journey but must wind down the tinted windows.
For me, the most important thing for a running shoe is if it can handle the harsh impacts of running on NYC city streets.
But in the 1996 campaign Mr Forbes went much further, running harsh attack advertisements against the Republican favourite, Bob Dole.
In the 2006 mid-terms several Republican congressmen from border areas, noting the fury of their constituents, ran harsh anti-immigration campaigns.
