Putin, too, also seems to suspect his regime s impotence.

To wait until events in Europe force them into line has turned out to be a bad strategy.

Keynes emphasized the flimsiness of the expectations on which economic activity in decentralized markets is based.

Some have suggested that the Iraq war proved the UN s irrelevance.

The system in which every town and village is managed from the Kremlin has proven to be a failure.

The Bundesbank did not fall victim to a sinister southern European conspiracy rather, it rendered itself irrelevant.

Quite simply, it is a root failure of the rule of law in the Philippines that is to blame for the plight of the victims.

Rarely, has history provided a more precise controlled experiment to test a political proposition and prove it false.

In short, there are psychological and moral failures at all levels individuals, firms, unions, insurance companies, and governments.

Opposition leader Mu Sochua argued on her blog that the current crisis exposed the failure of the government s economic policies

I love the idea of doing less work. So let me explain to you why a very simple fact that tells you why this shape theory really does not work very well.

The bankruptcy of these two respectable but now out moded positions opens the door for a new populism, based on an anti globalization groundswell.

By the summer of 2006, with the Lebanon war and Israel s reoccupation of the Gaza strip, the failure of unilateralism was clear.

Meanwhile, insolvencies and foreclosures triggered by excessive interest burdens are not reversed by later rate cuts.

This reflects not simply scruples, but a view that state failure and genocide can lead to destabilizing refugee flows and create openings for terrorists to take root.

It has become dangerously dependent on economic success, so that any large scale economic failure will expose the shallowness of its moral claims.

Cynics view this as merely an argument of convenience, one that has gained in prominence only because the other two rationales for the war collapsed.

Russian Twitter user Abu quickly noticed an inconsistency in the source of Mikhail Leontyev s find, tracing the satellite photo to an older post on a web forum in October

Though these claims are easily discredited, the Yes side has been unable to provide voters with sufficient reasons to vote for the Treaty.

Some Europeans and others may gloat over America s failure in Iraq, and the ineptness or worse of US post occupation policy cries to heaven. Yet the root causes of that failure go deeper, to Iraq s creation as an artificial entity in the 1920 s by British imperialist planners, who stitched together three disparate provinces of the defeated Ottoman Empire into a state that never had a coherent identity.

Some Europeans and others may gloat over America s failure in Iraq, and the ineptness or worse of US post occupation policy cries to heaven.

You see this inability to synchronize in our operations in Iraq and in Afghanistan, across our foreign policy, and in our response to Katrina.

The Bush administration and the new team at the IMF (when it arrives) have an opportunity to move away from the failed strategies for development, transition, and crises of the past. The challenge is to craft policies based on economic science, not ideology, in an open and democratic manner, paying particular attention to the consequences for the poor.

The Bush administration and the new team at the IMF (when it arrives) have an opportunity to move away from the failed strategies for development, transition, and crises of the past.

With the United Nations sanctions regime now having proven to be utterly ineffective, and with international diplomacy apparently futile in preventing the Iranians from mastering the technology for enriching uranium, Israel is being boxed into a corner.

Unfortunately, this also makes self regulation a faith that is very difficult to dispel, because its priests can always claim that its failures result not from theological bankruptcy, but from insufficient orthodoxy.

Likewise, the old Bretton Woods institutions came to be defined by a set of economic doctrines that has now been shown to fail not only in developing countries, but even in capitalism s heartland.

So this is what I mean with a failing governance structure, because even the powerful government, which we have in Germany, comparatively, was not able to say, We will not allow our companies to bribe abroad.

To see the inadequacy of that package, compare it with the more than 1.5 trillion that was borrowed in home equity loans in recent years, most of it spent on consumption.

Low morale results from too little kindness and decency it is a failure of custom and manners, a loss of social purpose, a diminution of the ability or the will to distinguish right from wrong and then to act rightly.