And they reflect on whether American society is becoming so divorced from the requirements for success on the battlefield that not only will we fail to comprehend our military, but we also will be unwilling to endure a military so constituted to protect us.
The country is in uproar just now, but outrage en masse functions like outrage in private: we reserve our deepest wrath not for the threat from without, which we fail to comprehend, but for forces with which we have been complicit.
But his anguish, and Hayes's breeziness, both point, in their own manner, in a similar direction: toward our confusion about war and heroism; about what we are willing to ask of our soldiers, what we owe them in return, and what we fail to comprehend, willfully or not, about the price they have to pay.
Unless we listen, we fail to comprehend the horrors in which we collectively participate.
Frustration sets in when we decide it's imperative for us to know that which we fail to comprehend.
For example, our efforts to seek a joint venture partner in China got off to a bad start, subsequently realising we had failed to comprehend fully the complexities of doing business in China.
"We are uncertain how the district failed to comprehend the union's concerns, which are classic workload issues," she wrote.
Clara was singing something that I strained to hear, and failed to comprehend.
Like Mary, Joseph failed to comprehend Jesus' ironic question, " 'How is it that you sought me?
At the time, Cecil failed to comprehend the sheikh's ambitions for his homeland.
