Without American leadership, a commitment to that goal, and a specific strategy to get there, important segments of Syrian society will remain on the fence, unwilling to wholly break from the regime and test the limits of its wrath.
When you allow your "whole" marriage to be broken because you choose to only give 50%, you can't expect to be wholly loved or be wholly in love with your spouse.
How, that is, were great-grandmothers not completely destroyed by enslavement, grandmothers not irreparably broken by bigotry, mothers not wholly defeated by loneliness?
Following his departure from government, Mr Okruashvili laid low, but speculation over the potential for him to join and perhaps galvanise Georgia's opposition never wholly subsided.J'accuseMr Okruashvili broke cover in extraordinary fashion on September 25th, appearing on television to accuse Mr Saakashvili of ordering the murder of his opponents.
There has been some sorrow, among comedians, that Trump has broken the satire machine — how does one humiliate a figure that has so wholly incorporated parody into his persona?
The convict, Owen muses, "would fall in love with his correspondent and then, when she had wholly gained his affection... break his heart".
But really though, breaking America is wholly doable.
But she is wholly herself, felled only when love breaks through the barriers and leaves her unsure and dissatisfied.
Spin called The Joshua Tree their "first wholly successful album because it finally breaks free from the seductive but limiting chant-and-drone approach of earlier material".
"I think it is about some sense of chthonic forces, just as Lawrence frequently is — some sense, not wholly articulated, of something below, trying to break through".
