The arguments employed are of very different value: some are important and sound, others are confused or quibbling.

所采用的有非常不同的价值：一些是重要而合理的， 另一些则令人困惑或狡辩。

Such as in Syria, where joint Saudi-CIA plans to supply anti-government rebels have consistently stumbled against what Saudi operatives view as quibbling American qualms.

例如在叙利亚，沙特与中情局联盟给反政方提供援助这一计划就一致给沙特佣兵中的美国刺儿刺儿的不安再添堵。

So they went from being very discontented with each other but at the end of the Cold War and then quibbling over nuclear issues and - - and India Pakistan and Kashmir into - - into the late nineties.

双方从一开始对彼此的非常不满，到冷战结束之初，然就核问题和克什米尔问题进行争，最进入90年代。

Either she neglected her appointment, which a woman of her professionalism is not wont to do, or she's lying there, having choked on one of her own snack chips, while you're standing here quibbling about policy.

要么她忘记了约定，她很专业所以不可能犯这种错误，要么她没办法接电话，因为她被零食噎着了，而你却在这里对制度吹毛求疵。