No wonder young people tell pollsters they feel even more alienated from the process this year.
Despite their opposition to Al Qaeda, Mr. Abbas says, most Awakening members feel even more alienated from the Shiite government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki.
Some draw a comparison with the reservations on which American-Indians have become progressively more alienated from the rest of America.Sadly, the Howard government has come up with very little in the way of fresh or interesting alternative policies.
He is less and less comfortable with the smiling, full-service spiritualism of Abundant Life, and more and more alienated from the beliefs and institutions that had once sustained him.
As a result, United Nations officials say the pace of reconstruction and investment is slowing and that the populace, nearly all of whom are ethnic Pashtuns, is becoming more alienated from the government in Kabul and its American backers.
As much of mainstream economics became obsessed with navel-gazing esoteric models or theories designed to justify market liberalism, the public became relatively more alienated from the activities of economists.
However, when changes in law concern major social-moral issues - such as declaring war, curbing liberties to fight terrorism, giving up sovereignty and scaling back the welfare state - the public must be engaged or it will become ever more alienated from the government.
If they cannot vote because of insecurity in the south, Pashtuns, the country's largest ethnic group and the one most closely associated with the Taliban, could become even more alienated from the government and the foreign forces backing it, political analysts say.
But since then, peace groups seem more and more alienated from the mainstream of Israeli society, which according to most studies is moving toward the right and an uncompromising anti-Arab position.
