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So, was China’s incursion into Indian territory an error by a local PLA commander?
Through trial and error – backed by a durable political and economic system – the US prevailed and the Soviet Union disintegrated.
Perhaps Obama’s central error was that an important but minor matter – stopping new settlements – was given central significance.
But, in the leap to “therefore” lies a chasm of error.
It would be a monumental error of statesmanship to turn our back on Europe and abandon a crucial position of power and influence in the twenty-first century.
Any such organizational technology, however, is subject to error and requires experimentation.
Democracy, in the words of the philosopher Karl Popper, is about being able to remove those in power without violence; it is in this sense about trial and error.
Trial and error implies the opportunity to err before we try again.
But Israel’s margin for strategic error will shrink even further.
His interventions diverted attention from the grave policy error being made at the time: deregulation of credit, which led to a deep financial crisis in the 1990s and anticipated the global crisis that erupted in 2008.
From the perspective of Realpolitik, Putin’s intervention in Ukraine was a catastrophic error: in addition to the economic sanctions Russia incurred as a result, Russian policy shifted Ukraine decisively into the Western camp.
But warfare is rife with accidents and human error, and such an event involving a nuclear plant could cause a meltdown.
Putin is No Ally Against ISISMUNICH – The leaders of the United States and the European Union are making a grievous error in thinking that President Vladimir Putin’s Russia is a potential ally in the fight against the Islamic State.
And since improvement requires trial and error, open society insists on freedom of expression and protecting dissent, even in such matters as the very criteria of what is right or true.
Many people predicted, and everyone can now see, that the decision to invade was a disastrous error; that it is having catastrophic consequences, not just for Iraq, but also for the Middle East generally; and that it has seriously damaged the moral standing of the United States and Britain.
Murari Lal, the coordinating lead author of the section of the IPCC report that contained the Himalayan error, admitted that he and his colleagues knew that the dramatic glacier prediction was not based on any peer-reviewed science.
That would be a grave error, given that any kind of cooperation with Russia wouldn’t contain or end the war in Syria: In fact, there is reason to fear the opposite: Any military cooperation with Assad – which is Putin’s aim and price tag – would drive a large majority of Sunni Muslims into the arms of radical Islamists.
A disobedient Sultan or tribal chief would be made to comprehend the error of his ways with a few gun ships moored offshore.
Unfortunately, the great sociologist Ralf Dahrendorf was right to conclude that, “The currency union is a grave error, a quixotic, reckless, and misguided goal, that will not unite but break up Europe.”
Policy recommendations that miss such warnings court over-confidence and error.
They reflect the fact that their discipline comprises a diverse collection of models, and that matching reality to model is an imperfect science with a lot of room for error.
And blaming bad politics, rather than poor economic policies, for populist rhetoric could be a far more serious error.
The economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff have received an astounding amount of press attention since it was discovered that they made a spreadsheet error in a 2010 paper that examined the statistical relationship between debt and growth.
They quickly conceded their error.
But Reinhart and Rogoff’s estimates in 2010 had already been superseded by a 2012 paper that they wrote with Vincent Reinhart, which used a more extensive data set that did not contain the error.
This is a more powerful indictment of the reasoning behind recent attempts to justify spending cuts during a recession than is a spreadsheet error or a flippant remark about Keynes’s sexuality.
Yet China’s economy would barely register the effect of new sanctions: North Korea’s annual GDP, at a meager $28 billion, constitutes little more than a rounding error for its giant neighbor.
It would be a colossal and historic error to believe that the attraction of populist and simplistic messages emanating from the extremes is solely the result of the economic crisis.
A Type I error involves admitting a potential terrorist.
A Type II error involves stopping innocent foreigners.
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