That is why IS must be clobbered in Syria as well as in Iraq.Mr Obama should now do what he ought to have done all along: give a decent supply of arms to Syria's moderate rebels, who are equally menaced by IS.
The trouble, of course, is that the slippage can accelerate and all those comforts may, sooner rather than later, be menaced too.Despite his cautious conservatism, Mr Stoiber is more likely to listen to those who preach the need for the sort of economic medicine that might court some unpopularity.
The only thing which has ever menaced the destruction of the Government under which we live, is this very thing.
Terrorists used the photos of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad which showed prisoners stacked in naked heaps and menaced by dogs as a recruiting tool.
In both Denmark and Sweden, the government is being menaced by opposition parties that want lower taxes and a slimmer welfare state.
The country is not beyond spasms of activity in the wake of acts of war: Pearl Harbour prompted draconian laws and, more recently, the September 2001 attacks triggered a convulsive and deeply un-American response, from Guantánamo Bay to anti-terror laws that menaced constitutional rights.
The last time a major hurricane menaced the Texas coast, in 2005, everyone tried to leave at once.
Business was menaced by an overvalued D-mark, nimble Asian competitors and unification's huge costs.
Intimidation has been on the rise in recent elections, and in several cases, the men in uniform have menaced voters rather than protected them.
But America is especially thrusting, and at the same time especially wedded to the rights of individuals, which gives the confrontation a flavour subtly different to anything elsewhere in the world.In Japan, at least until recently, the inconvenient smallholders would have been menaced by tattooed gangsters; they would soon have sold out.
The embassy had recently been menaced by protesters in the wake of an incident along Egypt's border with Israel in Sinai, when several Egyptian soldiers were killed, apparently by Israeli troops engaged in a battle with Palestinian fighters.In this section Feeling the heat of isolation Patience, please Catch them if you can Will foreigners get involved?
