To call the Israeli government clumsy is to miss the point. Israel has few illusions about Palestinians toppling their own leaders.

Erdogan s clumsy attempt at internet censorship crashed and burned immediately.

Clumsy intergovernmental processes risk blurring priorities, confusing policymakers, and exhausting civil servants.

A hitherto latent rivalry between Iran and Israel thus has been transformed into an open struggle for dominance in the Middle East.

Many pundits would have one believe that Ireland would have pulled through unscathed absent Germany s blundering statements.

Stability is at the heart of his thinking. Hence, he could not accept America s awkward pro democracy agenda.

But, even when the parliament does make an effort to connect with voters, the ponderous bureaucratic culture of its permanent officials tends to spoil things.

Already, Chinese officials ham handed response to the award has undercut their cherished and lavishly financed mission to project China s soft power around the globe.

Russian President Vladimir Putin s clumsy foray into the American debate infuriated many Americans (including me), but it was certainly a teachable moment.

This high handed attempt to highjack the ECB and make it a servant of the European Parliament would mean chronically low European interest rates and a depreciated euro.

There are immediate reasons why this is so Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert s government is weak and unpopular, mainly due to the botched 2006 war against Hezbollah in Lebanon.

But when Mikhail Gorbachev refused to support a German crackdown, a mixture of overwhelming public protest and government bungling brought down the Berlin Wall.

But one thing is common to everyone the process, in order to take full advantage of the species' potential, must be natural ripening, uninterfered with by clumsy intruders.

This is best illustrated by Turkey, where Obama has ignored Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan s heavy handed efforts to annul free speech and turn himself into a twenty first century Sultan.

Kan s status quo approach to alliance management won t hold up long, because Hatoyama s bungling has inflated Okinawans expectations about evicting the Marines. The current governor will likely block any construction to relocate a base on the island, exercising a de facto veto, particularly with the gubernatorial election due in late November.

Russia s heavy handed pressure on Georgia and its support of secessionist movements in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, two unrecognized republics within Georgia, inflames passions and risks destabilizing the already tense Northern Caucasus.

Austerity fatigue in the periphery is clearly evident from the success of anti establishment forces in Italy s recent election large street demonstrations in Spain, Portugal, and elsewhere and now the botched bailout of Cypriot banks, which has fueled massive public anger.

Kennedy certainly can be blamed for the bungled Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba and the subsequent Operation Mongoose the covert CIA effort against the Castro regime that convinced the Soviet Union that its ally was under threat.

All stick and little carrot has failed to quell Chechen nationalism, and President Vladimir Putin s similarly heavy handed attempts to control Russia s so called near abroad as in Ukraine during the Orange Revolution have proven no more successful.

A milestone was reached in 1694 the final lapse of the Licensing Order of 1643 that had been put in place by the Stuart kings put an end to heavy handed censorship that had previously tried to suppress the flow of free speech and ideas across society, and allowed writers to criticize the government freely.