This gross error is leading Russia to political ruin.

It is hard to understand this blunder.

It would be a big mistake to let that happen.

The current crisis is severe punishment for that immense intellectual error.

People don t understand how the government could have made this mistake.

The organizers' blunder caused the death of the guy.

When corruption hurts partners with that level of clout, it hurts you, too.

The right s deregulation mantra was simply wrong, and we are now paying the price.

Yet it would be a grave mistake to assume that the ECB can deliver lasting economic peace.

The second issue was a blatant error concerning glaciers that appeared in a major IPCC report.

Still, it would be a mistake for the Chinese government to treat the events in Thailand as an excuse to postpone political reform.

Then the Bush administration succumbed to hubris and made the colossal mistake of invading Iraq without broad international support.

To amend their major blunder, Petronas should withdraw the advert forthwith and stick to producing value based adverts that Petronas traditionally do.

But it would be a mistake to assume that the reemergence of so called XXL powers like China and India will simply bring a continuation of Western traditions.

This would provide temporary relief from a fatal flaw in the euro design s until the member countries devise a more permanent solution.

It would be a mistake to believe that the deaths of thousands of civilians, along with arbitrary imprisonment and torture, do not contribute to the spread of terror in Iraq.

This occasion calls for sober reflection and for deep gratitude to those who paid the ultimate price, as well as for reconciliation with all the victims of that dark chapter in the history of mankind.

But it would be a terrible mistake simply to super size the IMF in its current guise by greatly scaling up its lending facilities, as many propose.

The idea that the Chinese regime would quickly reform the country into an open, moderate, and benevolent giant was either a fraud, a gigantic misperception, or wishful thinking.

Leaving aside the lies, fictions, and questions of morality and personal responsibility, the critical mistake of America s war against Iraq was the absence of either a viable plan or the necessary strength to enforce a Pax Americana in the Middle East.

But to implicate Iraq, which had nothing to do with al Qaeda or the September 11 attacks, was a huge mistake, one that has strengthened Islamic extremists and has probably helped them recruit terrorists.

The reasons were always the same politico religious fanaticism and the blunder of challenging the prevailing world powers hence modern Zionism s obsessive quest for a binding alliance with a superpower.

But it would be a mistake to assume that the reemergence of so called XXL powers like China and India will simply bring a continuation of Western traditions. We will have to deal with a different type of superpower.

They are home to 70 of the population that lives on less than 2 a day, facing massive unemployment, gross inequalities, lack of infrastructure, regional imbalances, and a litany of other challenges.

Economic stagnation on this scale has alarming implications, because it means less and less tax revenues to fund all the reform projects and infrastructural investments Europe badly needs to regain its productivity and high tech competitive edge.

The era of US diplomatic hegemony has drawn to a close.

Although ordinary Lebanese have paid a huge human, economic, and infrastructural price, Hezbollah has made it clear to the Israelis that they can no longer take their military predominance for granted.

And it has not been strengthened by the Libyan revolution, but rather by the failure of state building in North Mali, the absence of post conflict reconciliation and reintegration in Algeria, and a lack of accountability for a shadowy Algerian security establishment whose brutal methods have proved woefully inadequate to the challenge.

It cannot. If governments continue to dither and bicker, the most that it can do is delay the war for a while.

And it is a grave mistake to think that this can be achieved without a political solution to the conflict in Syria the conflict that enabled the organization s explosive growth. Only if external powers think beyond military operations and devise a political solution to the crisis can the fight against the Islamic State succeed.