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Israel s Debacle at Sea

The effort failed completely.

Deregulation had proven to be a dismal failure.

Attempts to build a serious rainy day fund have failed badly.

The diplomacy of sanctions, ostracism, and brinkmanship has failed resoundingly.

The disastrous failure of the left has many causes.

The situation surrounding such oases represents the ultimate failure of politics.

Other currency centered conferences were dismal failures.

Voluntary codes of good conduct have been a dismal failure.

The result has been utter failure military defeat and a severe degradation of America s moral standing.

The Hundred Days' reform turned out to be a failure by 1898.

What is the cause of that dismal failure? The answer is in fact simple and clear.

Seventh, we must urgently begin to remedy our distressing failures on nuclear non proliferation and disarmament.

Their policies worked all too often, those of the Washington Consensus failed miserably.

A substantial failure of education about non renewable natural resources lies in the background of current public sentiment.

This is a job at which former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan proved to be a spectacular failure.

If anything, America s debacle in Iraq has only emboldened the challengers of the status quo in the region.

Likewise, Iran s nuclear program gained momentum thanks to its sense of impunity following the colossal failure in Iraq of America s concept of preventive war.

Given the huge financial stakes involved, achieving global consensus will be difficult, as the Copenhagen climate change fiasco proved.

The Baker Plan was a universal disappointment. Growth faltered again, and the International Monetary Fund actually reduced its lending.

The First Italian War of Independence, started by the Piedmontese king Charles Albert to exploit the favourable circumstances in Milan, turned into a total failure.

The dismal failure of Middle Eastern and North African economies to deliver the prosperity that their people desperately want is a constant factor pushing people into the streets.

Israel and the United States failed resoundingly in their attempt to dislodge Hamas from Gaza, or in forcing it to accept conditions for an end to the international boycott.

So, I figured, Oprah had dedicated an hour to doing this breath hold thing, if I had cracked early it would be a whole show about how depressed I am.

The world that Europe has called for is coming closer, and it can fail abysmally without the EU or improve at the margin thanks to it.

Looking back over these years, it is clear that there have been some remarkable successes in fulfilling the United Nations Charter principles, but that there have also been a number of serious failures.

After the debacle in Iraq, what is surprising is that a man who has regime change inscribed in his DNA could occupy so central a position in the French government.

A commission was set up to investigate whether any individuals could be held responsible for the Swedish fiasco at the Battle of Öland and other major defeats during the war.

The (incident) shows the build up of hatred and violence that the local citizens had to endure due largely to his failure in assessment of foreign policy, in particular, the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Donald Rumsfeld s dogma of military transformation the technological upgrading of an army s capacity to enable decisive victory with fewer troops failed resoundingly in Iraq.

And they were allowed to do so because of the absolute failure of oversight of the government that's supposed to be our government, protecting us.

This means that the West s policy of isolating Hamas in order to weaken it, which has been pursued since Hamas s victory in a free and fair election in 2006, has failed.

The fiasco of the Copenhagen climate summit is just one illustration of how far the world is from being able to bring about the desperately needed transition to a system of sustainable and secure provision of energy services.

SANTIAGO One of the recurrent themes at the United Nations spectacularly unsuccessful Rio 20 summit in June was the need to change how we measure wealth.

These dangers were predictable, and the world now knows that the war has proved a terrible failure of American strategy, and may yet have even more catastrophic consequences.

The plan s central conceit is that government ingenuity can disentangle the trillion dollar sub prime mortgage loan market, even though Wall Street s own rocket scientists have utterly failed to do so.

As a result, the EU s upcoming summit could turn into a fiasco, which may well prove lethal, because it would leave the rest of the eurozone without a strong enough financial firewall to protect it from the possibility of a Greek exit.

We don t need self proclaimed serious political newspapers dedicating their front pages to speculate on the king s every sneeze and cough and divert the public s attention from grave issues such as the recent utter failures of Morocco s craven and politically naïve diplomats in addressing the Western Sahara issue.

In fact, Hezbollah is now not only militarily stronger than ever Security Council Resolution 1701, which called for its disarmament, has proven to be an utter failure but also more politically robust than before the war.

America cannot do whatever it wants, as the Iraqi debacle has demonstrated but, at the same time, nothing much can be achieved in the way of international cooperation without US leadership, or at least active participation.

As a result, Palestinian negotiators have reversed their position on the step by step approach to negotiations an approach that proved disastrous, as it was exploited by radicals on both sides and gave the Israelis time to build more illegal settlements.

But the policy failures fueling this stock market fiasco go back further, to the massive government fueled surge in credit since the global financial crisis. Without that, brokerages would not have had all of that liquidity to lend for margin trading.

If protecting against hoaxes is not the market s purview, can news agencies or new media entities like Twitter prevent such deception? To be sure, they have suffered reputational damage from this fiasco and will likely try to improve.

The idea that the British set any kind of standard for bank conduct was exploded by last year s Libor scandal, while the fiasco at RBS destroyed the notion that UK officials know how to handle a failing bank.