However, reforms have often been halfhearted.
Such apologies as they make are deemed halfhearted and insincere.
Some will resort to veiling their own opinions in a halfhearted attempt to direct the decision.
The Europeans still cling to it, though, with the return of "liberal interventionism" in Libya, but it is anxious and halfhearted.
Russian concessions so far have been halfhearted and Russian policies, whether on Iran or Libya, do not coincide with those of America.
The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.
