Given its internal discord and reluctance to take on the Islamists, the army has been only too willing to embrace the fledgling militias, feeding them, providing instruction and even allowing them to shelter and train on abandoned state lands.
In a particularly damning indictment in The Times Magazine, Thomas Schweich, a former State Department official, blamed corrupt Afghan officials, internal policy divisions and the reluctance of American and NATO military to take on counternarcotics roles, as much as the Taliban.
Now confronted by a sea of personal debt, a dysfunctional financial system, productive capacity geared to servicing a nonexistent consumer boom and a still-shrinking high-tech manufacturing sector, even the Treasury is a convert, though with extreme reluctance and much internal debate at the wisdom of being sucked into the mire of how actually to promote growth.
Indeed, two leaders of Naral's two boards quit on the same day last August because of frustration over what they viewed as her reluctance to adopt internal changes to bring the organization into compliance with tighter federal laws governing nonprofit groups.
TOKYO Speaking to a visiting committee of American experts, a Tokyo Electric Power Company TEPCOofficialial conceded that the root causes of the Fukushima nuclear disaster stemmed from a lack of humility in anticipating the full effects of natural disasters and a reluctance to share internal concerns about nuclear power risks with regulators and the public.
Seemingly small differences Britain's willingness to pay senior managers generous stock options, Germany's reluctance to tolerate big internal income differentials can quickly turn into big causes of friction.Other barriers should be easier to tear down, especially those erected by governments.
Telus looked at Bell last year but did not bid, apparently because of Bell's reluctance to provide access to its internal financial data.
Iran's reluctance to do that may reflect internal disagreements in Tehran about how to respond to the latest Western efforts to discuss its nuclear program, another senior official said.
He states that the hate crimes reported so far are "no worse than usual", and explains that his internal communications with other Russian NGOs reveal a reluctance to protest in any noisy, visible way.
Internal factors included features such as stoicism and reluctance to seek early medical help.
