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Though the use of hard power against ISIS may not have run its course, the mistakes made in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria must not be repeated: strategies for military exit and political transition must be considered without delay.
But more important than assessing blame is correcting mistakes.
Unfortunately, President Bush has been as reluctant to admit the mistakes of his economic policy as he has in the case of his Iraqi misadventure.
Without grasping what has gone wrong in either area, it will be difficult to avoid repeating the same mistakes.
This failure to strengthen key functions at the IPCC left the organization unable to prevent and respond effectively to the minor mistakes that appeared in its last assessment report, published in 2007.
Forgetting thus affords us a second chance, individually and as a society, to rise above our past mistakes and misdeeds, to accept that humans change over time.
Both acts of collusion with Nazi Germany were immoral mistakes, writes Putin, but the latter was merely a response to the former.
Democracies make shameful mistakes, but they eventually correct them, or at least apologize for them.
“Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error,” said the Roman philosopher Cicero.
None of this excuses BP’s engineering mistakes and woeful public diplomacy.
Like everyone else, she made mistakes and got some things wrong.
But China has begun to make serious mistakes.
But all of these mistakes pale in comparison with what China did to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in July.
There is an old adage about how people’s mistakes continue to live long after they are gone.
As for Facebook, press reports suggest that the company may have made some egregious mistakes.
By learning from its mistakes, today’s Europeans may yet be able to reform and reinvigorate an “empire” whose most important work still lies ahead.
Sub-Prime Economic TheoryThe insistence that those responsible for today’s financial crisis pay a price lest they repeat their mistakes – the so called moral hazard argument – recalls the great American orator William Jennings Bryan’s immortal “cross of gold” speech: “You shall not press down upon the brow of labor a crown of thorns.
To avoid future increases in this appetite, policymakers and pundits have focused on the so-called “moral hazard problem”: the “bad guys” must pay for their mistakes, lest they make them again.
After all, as the EFSF shows, their orientation can be more short term and irrational than the market’s, repeating the same mistakes because they seem not to have learned from them.
For seven decades, the United States safeguarded a global framework, which – however imperfect, and regardless of how many mistakes the superpower made – generally guaranteed a minimum level of stability.
I believe that this trend is a serious mistake which, quite myopically, overlooks the potential for mistakes in regulation.
After all, government agencies are not omniscient; they do make mistakes; they can become ossified.
In fact, it works pretty well, though mistakes do occur (as they do in any regulatory system).
Can an understanding of the mistakes made in 1914 help the world to avoid another major catastrophe?
Humility, rigorous procedures, the prevention of conflicts of interest, an ability to acknowledge mistakes and, yes, punishment of fraudulent behavior are needed to regain citizens’ trust.
Those of us who believe that invading Iraq was a mistake, and that Bush is guilty of hubris in his failure to plan adequately for the aftermath, face a dilemma: if America withdraws too precipitously, it may compound these mistakes.
There might be some hope for the future if Bush owned up to his mistakes and changed course.
Climate campaigners changed their approach after the collapse of the Copenhagen climate-change summit last December and the revelation of mistakes in the United Nations climate panel’s work – as well as in response to growing public skepticism and declining interest.
A global holocaust is just as possible now, through mistakes or misjudgments, as it was during the depths of the Cold War.
Policy mistakes ranging from tax hikes to poor central-bank decisions to a global wave of protectionism (most famously America’s Smoot-Hawley tariff) turned a deep recession into the Great Depression.
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