Lehman's failure is widely seen as a similar turning-point in the current financial crisis: an unexpected blunder that came close to turning a garden-variety recession into another Depression.Mr Rogoff has a different view.
(5) Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, who became Jacques Chirac's toy spitz in opposing America as well as neighbors in Europe, would confess that his positioning of Germany as an unreliable Atlantic ally and a Central European bully was a diplomatic and economic blunder that his current attempt to sweet-talk U.S. investors is not about to rectify.
In her video, Bachmann speaks about some of the key issues driving her, from the fight to protect "innocent human life", "traditional marriage" and "academic excellence" to opposing the current administration, whose "foreign policy blunders" during the Arab Spring had contributed to turning "the Middle East into a devastating, evil jihadist earthquake".
With China, Russia, religious fundamentalism, and the current (and possibly Palin-esque) US blundering around the crockery shop, most of the possibilities for our fragile world accordingly seem to be shattering ones.
Though Meacham is himself only 40, New York Magazine reports that most young staffers think the magazine blundered badly with its current incarnation, as described here in a hopeful introduction that now reads like a ghostly premonition.
Given this ineptness, you have to wonder whether the economic fraternity is seriously blundering again with its current consensus economic forecast, which calls for the recession to be absolute history by year end.
The current Administration and its steady stream of blunders have made Beijing's task appreciably less difficult.
But is the UUP's decision to hold out against the advice of Tory central office and the current and former White House really such a tactical blunder?
In regular columns, King has hammered the current leadership in the Wilson Building for its failures, blunders and ethical missteps.
The Supreme Council has made clear its displeasure with the notion of any American occupation in Iraq, and, in a recent interview, a council official said the current American military buildup was the latest manifestation of a Washington blunder.
