It represents the apogee of a decade of hard and often inglorious fighting by American troops, and a reorientation of the world's most formidable war machine.
His only sin, it appears, is being "second-generation rich" and wanting to do the decent thing and wed his new girlfriend, who just happens to be the actress Barbie Hsu.
The deputy prime minister has recommended that News International "do the decent thing" and drop their attempt to take over complete control of the satellite broadcaster BSkyB.
I did not only speak with propriety - those is, clarifying I were a man of decent breeding, but I spoke with originality and those were the chief thing.
To see hundreds of millions of people rise out of dire poverty and be able to feed their children and have a decent home: that's a good thing and we should encourage it.