Neither Mr. Giuliani nor Mr. Romney seemed to address the idea that their past hawkish statements were based on intelligence that has proved flawed — reminiscent of the intelligence about unconventional weapons that led to the war in Iraq.
But Bush's premises have proved flawed, and the war-on-terror frame has obscured more than it has clarified.
As a professor at Princeton University, then a Fed governor under Mr Greenspan and briefly an adviser to George Bush, he helped build the edifice of macroeconomic orthodoxy that has proven so badly flawed.
Mr Weill's creation, backed by a host of executives, directors and investors ever since, has proved horribly flawed.
Though much of the anger directed at Clinton seems inarticulate or without a clear endgame, it's also true that, so far, she has proved a flawed messenger for the Democratic Party's liberal agenda.
The State House has put forward legislation to expand the Authority statewide, despite the fact that the Authority has proven to be completely flawed and incapable of maintaining the schools currently under its jurisdiction.
In our hands, this has proven to be extremely sensitive to minor flaws in cables, insulations, soldering, etc.
Many attempts to do so have proven to be flawed — even for some of the largest and best known firms in the world.
