Still, the adjusted outlook contrasts sharply with the surge of optimism that followed the killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011 and the dawn of the Arab Spring, which was initially seen as a political awakening across the Middle East that might render al-Qaeda and its archaic ideology irrelevant.
Either way, however, the precedents and the ideologies were irrelevant, for Iraq was Iraq.
How are bold new solutions going to come from tired ideologies, increasingly irrelevant political parties, a broken system of elections, and a Congress that has completely lost the confidence of the American people?
Progressive politico de Blasio and billionaire businessman Bloomberg end up in the same place: Ideology is irrelevant to local government when it comes to public safety.
And yet ideology seems increasingly irrelevant to a true description of power in Venezuela.
Certainly, issues and ideology seem as irrelevant to the candidates in choosing their friends as voters say they are in choosing a candidate.
Mr. Bloomberg, a longtime Democrat who switched to the Republican Party to run for mayor, said that political ideology was almost irrelevant to the task of running a city like New York, and that the city would be better served by adopting an electoral process under which candidates for city offices are not identified by party on the ballot.
My view is that we are stuck in an inappropriate industrial age conflict between two ideologies that are increasingly irrelevant.
Whether leaders subscribe to the ideology they espouse is irrelevant.
Without a rigid Islamist ideology, the ayatollahs would become irrelevant.
No, actually — what seems far-fetched is that any liberal commentator would airily dismiss the reactionary ideology of government-baiting as irrelevant to the business of government.
