Mr Harper has also made few friends in Africa (where he has closed embassies), or in Europe and among island states (with his feeble policy on climate change).He came to power in 2006 sceptical of Canada's traditional multilateralism ("a weak-nation strategy", he said) and of the UN itself.
And this Iranian regime, with its back to the wall, will redouble its efforts to drive wedges between, say, evil Brits and potentially more "co-operative" Germans, or at least to reduce us to a feeble policy of the lowest common multiple.
If the stuff keeps coming out of the ground, it will be burnt, without regard to the feeble policies seeking to limit its consumption.
If it were not for the hearings in the House Committee on Government Reform that were chaired by Congressmen Tom Davis and Henry A. Waxman, and supported by Senators John McCain and Jim Bunning, baseball would still be operating with a feeble steroid policy.
Doubtless there are such "liberal ninnies," but it is rash of Wills to reduce Nader's support in this election to the questionable judgment that Gore's environmental policy (feeble at best) was equivalent to Bush's (disastrous).
Well, good luck, Mr. and Mrs. America: squeeze until your face turns red, white, and blue... Either as a nation we have grown feeble or the policy of containment, once preached as the only safe tactic for dealing with the Communist menace, has now refocussed upon the output of capitalism, in all its sparkling, poisonous, hazardous variety.
The GOP with its one surefire weapon political hit weapon gone, has looked even more feeble on foreign policy issues.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka's powerful defence secretary, growls that Tamil Nadu dictates policy to feeble Delhi.
But, turning to their second objective, the Poles are gazing apprehensively at last month's fudge by the European Union of how it proposes to organise its finances in the next few years.With such a feeble reform of farm policy, it seems increasingly doubtful whether the EU can rapidly absorb a Poland of 39m people, including more than 2m farmers.
The existing Arab order, he preached, was replete with hypocrisy and two-faced policies, with feeble and shameful regimes who worked against, not for, Arab unity and the Palestinian cause in which they claimed to believe.
As the economy's traditional export and investment engines have been slowed by feeble demand and excess factories, policy makers are trying to shift toward services and consumption.
