America's own traumatic experience with terrorism in 2001 inspired a decade-long intervention in the Middle East that ultimately proved misguided and disillusioning; indeed, it has ruined the appetite for democracy-building efforts anywhere.
But what a long, painful, disillusioning road to get there.
He must also deliver quickly on promises to fight corruption, increase social spending and create new jobs, if he is to avoid disillusioning the electorate.Mr Gutierrez rose to fame after leading an uprising, backed by Ecuador's powerful Andean Indian movement, to overthrow President Jamil Mahuad in January 2000.
Gazprom's own incompetence wins a special Bear's Kiss commendation, for disillusioning even the Germans about Russia's potential as a reliable energy partner.
Since the early 1950s, Abe had been a member of the Japanese Communist Party, but his visit to eastern Europe in 1956 proved disillusioning.
Although many newcomers anticipate a land of personal fulfillment, the state has its share of disillusioning characteristics for example, notably high rates of bankruptcy, crime, and divorce.
Jan Kott, writing in the disillusioning aftermath of World War II and from an eastern European perspective, reshaped Shakespeare as a dramatist of the absurd, skeptical, ridiculing, and antiauthoritarian.
His feelings about Maria then and at her later brief and disillusioning reentry into his life are reflected in David Copperfield's adoration of Dora Spenlow and in the middle-aged Arthur Clennam's discovery (in Little Dorrit) that Flora Finching, who had seemed enchanting years ago, was "diffuse and silly," that Flora, "whom he had left a lily, had become a peony".
A disillusioning experience, it produced, however, a few short writings in which he expressed his scholarly and political convictions more directly than in his major works.
In the 1980s the Indian government blatantly rigged elections in Kashmir, disillusioning Kashmiris, who then openly sought azadi, or freedom.
Among other things, Paterson reveals that during the 1963 Labour Party leadership election Brown was so drunk that he had to be kept out of the House of Commons tea room for fear of disillusioning potential supporters.
