Word: fecklessness
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...only was a questionable election result likely to prompt street protests and provide ammunition to hawks in the West, it also affirmed a challenge to much of the Islamic Revolution's established political class. Ahmadinejad branded the entire revolutionary establishment as feckless and corrupt, prompting appeals to Khamenei from former President Hashemi Rafsanjani, head of the Assembly of Experts, who was one of Ahmadinejad's chief targets. But he and others got little sympathy for their complaints that the president's attacks undermined the legitimacy of the revolution itself. Some tartly pointed out that since Khamenei himself was president from...
Malley and Agha have some blunt advice for Obama. Achieving success "won't be done by repackaging the peace process of years past. It won't be done by strengthening those leaders viewed by their own people as at best weak, incompetent and feckless, at worst irresponsible, careless and reckless. It won't be done by perpetuating the bogus and unhelpful distinction between extremists and moderates, by isolating the former, reaching out to the latter, and ending up disconnected from the region's most relevant actors. It won't be done by trying to perform better what was performed before...
...Missed Opportunities One answer to that question is, because Pakistan's leaders have been so feckless. When Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in December 2007, her husband Zardari assumed leadership of her political party and then the presidency. Zardari swore to bring his wife's killers to justice. He has not done so, instead wasting an opportunity to rally the nation against terrorism. There is no national media campaign to combat Taliban propaganda and no clerics on TV or radio denouncing suicide bombers. See pictures of Bhutto's Village in Mourning...
...worth $250 billion, or about 35% of the total market capitalization of the Toronto Stock Exchange, before it flamed out in the post-dotcom bust. Earlier this year, Nortel, a company with $10.4 billion in annual revenues that has spent nearly a decade mired in accounting scandals and feckless attempts to reinvent itself, initiated bankruptcy proceedings. It will probably sell its most prized assets to chief rivals, including Nokia Siemens Networks and Avaya. It's a penny stock...
...liability in his new post. A company lifer, he has presided over GM's growth in regions around the world, earning accolades as a talented, tough and steady leader. But as a consummate insider who formerly served as President and COO, he must also shake the public perception that feckless leadership has played a large part in GM's slide toward insolvency. Henderson is known for keeping his cool in tough spots, but there are few hotter seats in the business world than the one he's just landed in. (See pictures of General Motors plants...