In our example, there may be a number of reasons or hindrances that make it difficult for the speaker’s buddy to lend him the money. The speaker knows, for example, that he shouldn’t ask for the money in the first place. This is the third time he’s borrowed money from people and his friend doesn’t want to encourage this habit. Or the friend has lent him money a few times before and he never returned any of it as he promised he would.
Or his buddy simply does not have five dollars on hand. Or something else may be the matter.
Anyways, and in short, to “see one’s way clear to do something” is to be willing to do it and to find the necessary tools to do it – usually in spite of obvious hindrances and obstacles.
Let’s get a clearer view via a few media examples:
1. Each year the number of individuals who have been in the armed forces, not to mention those who have actually fought in combat, grows smaller in America. Almost 70 percent of male citizens over 65 have been in the service; only 12 percent of the guys between 18 and 29 can say the same. Little by little, the notion of the military as technical training for the less prosperous took hold, richly abetted by commercials: it’s not a job, it turns out, but an adventure. At least until you get to Baghdad.
Combine that shift with the roiling skepticism created by Watergate and Vietnam, as well as a long period of peacetime prosperity, and what you have is a growing class of Americans who would fight conscription with neither reservation nor remorse. This includes not simply the functional equivalent of the 19-year-olds burning their draft cards a generation ago, but the parents of many of today’s 19-year-olds as well. The divisions over the war in Iraq and growing mistrust about the justification for the invasion have resulted in a middle-aged middle class who have adapted the old slogan to cover their own kids: hell no, they won’t go.
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