With the economy contracting, tax receipts dwindling, and loans failing, the situation is neither sustainable nor easily fixed.
This leaves us with brilliant leaders in one situation failing to perform in another, while our world is presenting us with an unending stream of rapidly changing situations.
I remind myself to be patient, polite and courteous when in a crowded situation (failing more times than I'd like to admit).
Then America's Nato allies did their part to worsen the situation, failing to contribute sufficient numbers of their soldiers to stability operations, and failing to give them appropriate rules of engagement to help fight remaining Taliban elements.
Cano is not the only Yankee who has been failing in such situations.
Miami has been struggling since last fall to close out games with precision and grace, with Wade and James alternately failing in clutch situations.
This year alone, Love already has five top 10 finishes, but he has stumbled in key situations, failing to break 70 on Sunday during his last five tournaments.
Horwitz and Young (1991) have defined test anxiety as an apprehension over academic evaluation which is a fear of failing in test situations; and for Zeidner (1998) it is a set of phenomenological, physiological, and behavioural responses that accompany concern about possible negative consequences or failure in an exam or similar evaluation situation.
"Releasing animals into a situation where the threats are still there and failing to monitor the situation properly is really a wasted effort.
"The current situation is failing, the longer we wait to put in place a legal trade the more rhinos we lose," he told BBC News.
