It came under attack, however, when the Administration's predictions about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and the potential for insurgency failed to be realized, and the Pentagon civilians were widely accused of politicizing intelligence.
Successful leaders are nothing if not persistent, committed individuals who understand potential is of little value if said potential fails to be realized.
For instance, in the time of Corazon Aquino, she pushed for land reform but her program failed to be realized before the end of her term due to opposition of landed legislators (Steinberg 1990).
Typically we look at the obstacles that have obstructed peace in the past, or the demands made by each side that have been failed to be realized.
But what the hoi polloi fail to realize is that being fabulously wealthy is an enormously expensive proposition.
"But what many people fail to realize is that the oilsands are being produced because there's demand: in Canada, in the US, around the world.
Yet what most Americans fail to realize is that we're funding the very individuals we claim to be fighting.
What Republicans fail to realize is that their party is now tagged as being one of mean, bigoted blowhards.
What they fail to realize is that piracy is not something you can actually kill.
What they fail to realize is all this is just as possible, out in the physical world.
What most people fail to realize is that we are all unique in our ability to function as an entrepreneur in some area(s) of our lives.
