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America’s killing machines have
failed
to subjugate the area’s proud people – a failure that underlies the US decision to withdraw from Afghanistan by 2014.
Donald Rumsfeld’s dogma of military “transformation” – the technological upgrading of an army’s capacity to enable decisive victory with fewer troops –
failed
resoundingly in Iraq.
Today, there is a broad consensus that shock therapy, at least at the level of microeconomic reforms, failed, and that countries (Hungary, Poland, and Slovenia) that took the gradualist approach to privatization and the reconstruction of institutional infrastructure managed their transitions far better than those that tried to leapfrog into a laissez-faire economy.
All five
failed.
Hong Kong ’s government, led by the HKMA, launched an unprecedented intervention, buying up local shares to “defeat” the speculators, but
failed
to stop the stampede by global investors, including conservative pension and mutual funds.
Moreover, the existing banks have
failed
to serve these parties’ small-business and farming constituencies.
Three older missiles, launched in his presence,
failed
to reach their targets on Kamchatka.
The European Central Bank’s vehement opposition to what is essential to all capitalist economies – the restructuring of
failed
or insolvent entities’ debt – is evidence of the continuing fragility of the Western banking system.
Once in power, Sirisena’s government put on hold the construction by Chinese firms of a $1.4 billion city on reclaimed land, and ordered investigations into environmental violations and corruption, including an alleged $1.1 million bribe by a Chinese state-run firm to Rajapaksa’s
failed
presidential reelection campaign.
Given that the Doha Round has
failed
to address the main problems that the US and Europe have encountered in trade relations with China – non-compliance with intellectual-property rules, subsidies for state-owned enterprises, closed government-procurement markets, and limits on access to the services market – both are now emphasizing bilateral trade agreements.
That approach succeeded once, with the 2017 corporate tax cut, because big Republican donors insisted on the measure, but it
failed
with Trump’s attempt to repeal Obamacare, as three Republican senators balked.
Here the courts have repeatedly intervened, most recently within days of the election, when a federal district court halted work on the Keystone XL Pipeline, a project strongly opposed by environmentalists, on the grounds that the Trump administration had
failed
to present a “reasoned explanation” for its actions.
Congressional Republicans’ attempts to replace the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) have failed, not least because moderate Republicans refused to vote for a bill that would deprive some 20 million Americans of their health insurance.
Having
failed
to do that, it should now define clear rules and responsibilities to govern and manage as best as possible the inevitable monetization of some part of its accumulated debts.
But there is one important component missing from the government’s reform agenda for 2015: improved bankruptcy procedures for
failed
borrowers.
Unless
failed
borrowers and projects exit the system quickly and smoothly, the market will be saddled with bad debt and incomplete projects, undermining its performance.
This entails strengthening China’s institutional foundations and establishing clear, transparent rules, in order to encourage experimentation and innovation, ensure the smooth exit of
failed
projects, and manage the fallout of errors.
Far from a miracle, Trump has
failed
to deliver any kind of improvement to economic growth.
But the Islamic Republic’s history is littered with its presidents’
failed
attempts to consolidate an independent power center.
It, too,
failed
to carry out health care and pension reforms even if resistance at that time came from different interest groups.
Although Germany has a National Action Plan, is 11th on the Global Gender Gap Index (which ranks countries on levels of gender equality), and has a strong female chancellor and its first-ever female defense minister, it still
failed
at first to consider how its policy might have different effects on men and women.
Millions of Africans, in more than a dozen countries, are facing similar struggles, as
failed
harvests and persistent conflict fuel severe food insecurity.
I wrote The Price of Civilization out of the conviction that the US government has
failed
to understand and respond to the challenges of globalization ever since it began to impact America’s economy in the 1970’s.
Three times in their history – in 1937,1947, and 2000 – the Palestinians were offered a state, and three times their leaders
failed
to meet the challenge – admittedly never an easy one for a nation built on such an unwavering ethos of dispossession.
And yet, unfortunately, when it comes to achieving that goal, betting has consistently
failed.
He then marshaled an unprecedented international coalition that backed sanctions and the threat of force, sent a half-million US troops halfway around the world to join hundreds of thousands from other countries, and, when diplomacy
failed
to bring about a complete and unconditional Iraqi withdrawal, liberated Kuwait in a matter of weeks with remarkably few US and coalition casualties.
The vote in the Senate authorizing military action nearly
failed.
And the Republicans
failed
to tap another candidate after Fillon became tainted by scandal.
Having
failed
at the ballot box, they may – in traditional French revolutionary fashion – resort to “the barricades.”
Charles Kindleberger, an intellectual architect of the Marshall Plan who later taught at MIT, argued that the disastrous decade of the 1930s was caused when the US replaced Britain as the largest global power but
failed
to take on Britain’s role in providing global public goods.
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