The story of how Guantánamo and the new military justice system became an intractable legacy of Sept. 11 has been largely hidden from public view.
The decline in Obama's political fortunes, the Great Disappointment, can be attributed to four main factors: the intractable legacy bequeathed by George W. Bush; Republican resistance amounting to sabotage; the unrealistic expectations and inevitable disenchantment of some of the president's supporters; and, to be sure, the man himself.
What should also matter to a contemporary audience seeing a movie about the evils of slavery are the intractable vestiges of slavery's legacy that persist even now".
The Irishman didn't need Watson to be a slapstick captain - his team would have won regardless - but the comparison between the enlightened Dubliner and the intractable Kansan has done McGinley's legacy no harm at all.
Granted, this shouldn't be surprising, given that both industries suffer from some seriously intractable problems, mostly courtesy of long-entrenched legacy infrastructure.
The Stormont House deal has been widely hailed as a way to find resolutions to some of Northern Ireland's most intractable problems, including parading and dealing with the legacy of the Troubles.
Virtually all the Founding Fathers went to their graves realizing that slavery, no matter how intractable, would become the largest and most permanent stain on their legacy.
The legacy of sexual slavery remains one of the most intractable disputes resulting from Japan's colonization of Korea from 1910 to its World War II defeat in 1945.
The report notes: "The effective investigation of cases which are the legacy of the Troubles in Northern Ireland has proved a particularly intractable problem in practice because it is so intimately bound up with the much larger question of dealing with the past in a post-conflict society".
Through herd mentality, or pure atavism, the leaderless state was drawn back to its one familiar point of reference, the tribal system of its ancestors, and with it the full force of its legacy: a return to the hatred of the past, to intractable rivalries, violent raids and an unquenchable thirst for vengeance.
