The right way to read this book, I suggest, is to allow yourself to be disarmed by its disarmed author.
Cheerful transparency seems to be LOCOG's ethos, and three cheers for it, but it can be disarming, perhaps intentionally so, and it wouldn't do to be disarmed of certain questions.
We want them to be disarmed.
The interlopers would have to be disarmed.
But in Liberia, many of the soldiers who need to be disarmed are children.
Under the Congolese peace agreement, the militia groups were meant to be disarmed.
According to the terms of the ceasefire, they are supposed to be disarmed.
The invaders have recently made gestures of withdrawal, but they want the Rwandan and Burundian Hutu groups to be disarmed.
The Bush administration claimed that Saddam Hussein had to be disarmed to make the Middle East safe for democracy.
Now commanders talk about "crippling" the militia enough to enable it to be disarmed by political negotiations.
Secretary Powell said today that Iraq had to be disarmed because it had supported "terrorists" and was making prohibited weapons.
