This policy collapsed after a legal challenge by private companies just before the last election.
"The old policy collapsed, and a new policy is required now toward the Middle East," said Ersin Kalaycioglu, a professor of political science at Sabanci University in Istanbul.
During the last years of the reign the Emperor's once successful foreign policy collapsed, leading to isolation and to the tragedy of the Crimean War.
The White House has been refining the message since July, when Mr. Obama's attempts to forge a "grand bargain" with the House Republicans on fiscal policy collapsed and he reverted to a populist, anti-Congress strategy.
In Latin America, Mexico's anti-drugs policy collapsed embarrassingly just before Mr Clinton was due to visit the country for the first time.In this section The doubts grow In defence of Newt Answered prayer The fight to be fair This island race From the desk to the ball court Militias and messiahs ReprintsMoreover, the administration's disarray is mirrored in Congress.
Mr Brown complained that the SNP's economic policies collapsed on close examination, "but they never answer questions".
And there are moments — wars, health policies, collapsing debt ceilings — when a voice, even one that loses the argument, could make a difference.
In the event, concerted international action on both monetary and fiscal policy prevented collapse – although they did get pretty darn close to the precipice.
"The protest movement is not going anywhere because people are not put on the streets by the State Department but by election fraud, the degradation of law enforcement and the judicial system, lack of a coherent social and migration policy, the collapse of health and education services and total disregard for citizens demonstrated by officials".
But once Bush's foreign policy credibility collapsed, his domestic political capital collapsed as well: moderates stopped working with him, conservatives rebelled, and the White House's planned second-term agenda — Social Security reform, tax and health care reform, immigration overhaul — never happened.
"Qatar's foreign policy is collapsing around it," grins an Egyptian official, delighting in what he hopes is the Islamists' loss of their major patron.
