Given their self righteousness and lack of historical and cultural awareness, Bush and his advisors believed that invading Iraq would be easy, that Saddam Hussein s military would crumble, and that the US would be welcomed as a liberator.

In fact, most war is a failure of politics, a failure of political imagination.

The attempt ended in failure.

The peace talks ended in failure.

Let the Doha Round Fail

Everyone pretended to be shocked at the failure of internationalism.

All our effort ended in failure.

But to treat this setback as a failure would be a self fulfilling prophecy.

In this sense, the ECB s bond buying program has been a failure.

That gap proved the difference between the success of the father and the failure of the son.

Putin's first term in office proved to be an economic success and a political failure.

The Orange Revolution in 2004 was a failure for most Ukrainians.

And for the Eurozone, it would be a failure, and a disturbing precedent.

The most recent G7 finance ministers meeting in October was an utter failure.

RB Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure.

The supermarket's previous attempt to revamp its beauty and pharmacy departments ended in failure.

But Reding s appeal in Europe was considered a failure only 24 companies took it up.

In this sense, the failure to save Greece amounts to a failure of Europe.

The fifth shock was German unification, which is a failure in economic terms. GDP per working age person in East Germany had been 61 of the West German level in 1996, but it is now only 59 .

The introduction of a common European currency was successful political integration by means of a constitutional treaty a failure.

The fifth shock was German unification, which is a failure in economic terms.

In Ligue 1, would not winning the title, like last season, be a big failure?

The latter two wars have been politically self defeating for the US, in addition to costing it trillions of dollars.

Perhaps most important is a coherent, consistent approach to dealing with the imminent failure of systemically important institutions.

Dealing with Russia has probably been the biggest failure in the attempt to make European foreign policy.

The overt bomb was of course the appearance of Sugar Aloes at the Eat Ah Food Fete.

Until last year, many observers regarded R2P as at best a pious hope or a noble failure.

Yeltsin's biggest failing was in not creating a viable, non ideological party a party of power to buttress his regime.

Under such circumstances, calling Mitchell s work up to now a failure is the only polite and realistic thing to do.

Only time will tell whether their current nonchalance constitutes another failure to assess and prepare for extreme events.

Our current waste disposal mechanism is catastrophic and these past few weeks were a manifestation of this failure.

Most immediately, Calderón had to address his immediate predecessor s failure to implement any of the major reforms that Mexico needed.

But his two aggressive adventures the more recent over twelve years ago ended in humiliating failure.

It has been obvious for some years that the actually existing EMU has been a costly failure, both economically and politically.

Ogarkov s ineptness (and inept mendacity), together with the mounting failure since 1979 of the Soviet Union s war in Afghanistan, exposed the system s advanced decrepitude.

That disguised coup failed barely and there is no guarantee that the result will be similar this time around in Mexico.

The first step is early engagement.

The benefits of tax cut fueled growth would trickle down to all policies that have become fashionable in Europe and elsewhere, but that have failed.

Barack Obama, appealing to swelling protectionist sentiment among Americans, threatened during his presidential campaign to rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement unilaterally. This July, the World Trade Organization s Doha trade round fell to pieces, partly because the US refused to lower its agricultural subsidies.

Western media judged the election a failure. CNN reported it neither equitable nor free.

This July, the World Trade Organization s Doha trade round fell to pieces, partly because the US refused to lower its agricultural subsidies.

Succeed, and Lula may bring Latin America the politics of the plateau, one where democratic change is merely an alternation, not an abyss.

The question for Japan is this what will happen, both in Iraq and in the world, if America withdraws in failure?

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.

BERKELEY A decade ago, the 2008 Nobel laureate in economics, Paul Krugman, wrote a little book entitled The Return of Depression Economics . It sank like a stone.