What seems to have been missing from the US calculus, and what Power's comments have perhaps unwillingly underscored, is that so many signs point to a crude reality: that Assad and his backer, Vladimir Putin, aren't just indifferent to crimes against humanity but believe they serve their purpose.
It is also in the process of, albeit perhaps unwillingly, being acquired by a consortium of Chinese companies that includes several ad companies.
Perhaps Jean-Luc Godard, who first inspired Akerman, is a rare example of someone who does the same thing, his work effectively and possibly unwillingly now occupying his own middle ground between cinema and video art.
Citizens can, possibly unwillingly, aid our enemies.
Quite often he did so, but perhaps, we might speculate, a little unwillingly – until the soldis were counted out into the palm.
Perhaps the change the church is now (unwillingly) going through - the loss of moral authority and cultural dominance - will provide the context for a spiritual revival.
Kurant, who has always had an interest in the idea that termite colonies are like any other society that builds communities and monuments, adds "Perhaps all of us are currently, also unwillingly participating in a larger project being built which we are unaware of.
If lawmakers can't be bothered to legislate on behalf of the health of sex workers (and history indicates that they can't), perhaps they can consider my friend, and others unwillingly in her position, when listening to constituents.
They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal.
Advocates for gay soldiers believe that the administration, on its own, has the authority to prevent the discharge of gay people, perhaps by issuing "stop-loss" orders such as those used to keep troops serving past their original commitments in Iraq — many unwillingly.
To go (unwillingly) to Sweden?
