Word: blunderer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shameful case of weakness, blunder and cowardice...
...government is lucky to have such people; they take every outrageous government blunder as evidence of a brilliant covert strategy. In the case of Sheik Rahman, the government had no strategy, covert, overt or otherwise...
Israeli officials may have publicized the theory about Hamas' ties in the U.S. and the arrests of the Americans in order to deflect attention from the fracas over the deported Palestinians. The U.S. -- and most of the world -- thought the move was a blunder, putting Israel on the defensive. "We've had to conduct an uphill struggle to make our case understandable," says Dromi. "The more facts that expose the nature and magnitude of this threat, the better Israel's case...
Manuel S. Varela '94 knew he made a mistake when he got a haircut from someone who wasn't is usual barber. He just wonders when he'll stop suffering from his blunder...
...issue. What the U.S. demands is Iraq's compliance with all the U.N. resolutions; what Iraq wants is an end to the strangulation of sanctions. Clinton may have been right to suggest something more pragmatic. "His statement," observes Charles William Maynes, editor of Foreign Policy magazine, "was not a blunder." What might work, he says, "is persuading Saddam of what Iraq could achieve through adherence to the resolutions...