Abenomics' other two arrows – structural reforms and monetary easing – have not inflicted such grave self-harm.
But as Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution puts it, they have not inflicted any "strategic harm".
In its negotiation of the Justice and Peace Law and of paramilitary disarmament, the government recognised that it had not inflicted military defeat on the AUC.
The police have said they also have taped telephone conversations in which Ms. Thakur wondered aloud why the Malegaon bombing had not inflicted a higher death toll.
These tragedies were not inflicted on the other examples of cultural difference he cites, laughably comparing antisemitism with offensive generalisations about the French, Italians, Scots and English.
Oddly, perhaps, we do not remember nearly so clearly Lawrence Dallaglio's broken ankle in an earlier match: it may be because the circumstances were less dramatic, and because the injury was not inflicted with malice aforethought.
