Word: blunderer
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...seriously. Washington needs to be more attentive to the root causes of America's massive current-account deficit: an unprecedented shortfall of domestic saving brought on by open-ended budget deficits and a lack of personal saving. A protectionist remedy for America's homegrown problems would be a policy blunder of monumental proportions?taking the world down a very slippery and dangerous slope...
...agree with Samuelson that it would be bracing if Eisner took responsibility for his own blunder in hiring such a turkey for president of the company in the first place. But I don't see it happening. I hope that doesn't sound cynical. It's just that I know Eisner has had previous opportunities to end public relations calamities by paying up with his own money...
...troops are there. Many more Saddams are waiting to rise to the top in Iraq. We were naive to think we could easily paste a veneer of Jeffersonian democracy on a land where tribal allegiances date back centuries. By almost any measure, this war is unnecessary and a tragic blunder. Yet to withdraw our troops now would compound the mistake we made in deciding to invade and would leave an unstable and volatile nation to fend for itself. So what should Americans do? We should support our troops until some sort of muddled conclusion allows at least a partial withdrawal...
...troops are there. Many more Saddams are waiting to rise to the top in Iraq. We were naive to think we could easily paste a veneer of Jeffersonian democracy on a land where tribal allegiances date back centuries. By almost any measure, this war is unnecessary and a tragic blunder. Yet to withdraw our troops now would compound the mistake we made in deciding to invade and would leave an unstable and volatile nation to fend for itself. So what should Americans do? We should support our troops until some sort of muddled conclusion allows at least a partial withdrawal...
...troops are there. Many more Saddams are waiting to rise to the top in Iraq. We were naive to think we could easily paste a veneer of Jeffersonian democracy on a land where tribal allegiances date back centuries. By almost any measure, this war is a tragic blunder. Yet to withdraw our troops now would compound the mistake we made in deciding to invade and would leave an unstable and volatile nation to fend for itself. So what should Americans do? We should support our troops until some sort of muddled conclusion allows at least a partial withdrawal...