Ecologically speaking, our job is to become acquainted with the human terrain which influences our decisions and sometimes surrenders us to authority.
The fact a few weeks ago that within a matter of days, one third of Iraq could be swallowed up by a terrorist regime of unprecedented scale and depraved turpitude met only by a retreating army surrendering US -provided weapons and cash. in its hasty wake suggests that the dysfunction housed here is even worse than first feared.
What McCain and Graham call "arbitrary" is another word for finally deciding that we are not going to wait — that we can make our own rupture, setting a ceremony at the time of our choosing, and one that is not a surrender by us, either.
"You must surrender to us, we have seen how hard you have worked and we want you to have every good thing".
Unfortunately, Awal Gul had been instrumental in convincing local Taliban commanders in Jalalabad to surrender to US forces with the hope of landing a position in the new government.
In the chaotic two days that followed, up to six divisions fled, surrendering their US-supplied advanced weapons.
As DeRay Mckesson, one of the Ferguson movement's most vocal leaders, told a writer for Salon, "We still protest every day, because we know that not only will our silence not save us, our surrender won't save us, a video camera won't save us.
Taie surrendered to US forces in September 2003 after weeks of negotiations.
And do you know why? Look at the title: is he surrendering to us? No, that's another hint.
"When they just buy the thing that we really believed in, that's them surrendering to us," he said.
Yet Wheeldon, coming from ballet, rather than from tap — and from England, which kept fighting after France surrendered — gives us a more noir picture.
