Sentence examples for policy miscalculations from inspiring English sources

But the panel said the effort was stymied by bureaucratic miscommunications, diplomatic failures, intelligence lapses and policy miscalculations.

During the past year, however, the Bush administration has made a string of foreign policy miscalculations, and the state department conference must acknowledge this.

He presents this much-ignored aspect of Roosevelt's thinking with sharp specificity ("I am so angry with that infernal little Cuban republic that I would like to wipe its people off the face of the earth," Roosevelt wrote in 1906) and then goes on to make a much more damaging point, angrily and persuasively connecting Roosevelt's race-based foreign policy miscalculations in Asia.

"Kaiser has worked his way through the archives and emerged with an impressive account of what he terms 'the greatest policy miscalculation in the history of American foreign relations,' " Gideon Rose wrote here in 2000.

A professor at the Naval War College, Kaiser has worked his way through the archives and emerged with an impressive account of what he terms "the greatest policy miscalculation in the history of American foreign relations".

I don't know, a smarter man than me would give them room to find a dignified and graceful exit policy from their miscalculation.

Despite such deterrents to armed confrontation, oil and foreign policy analysts say a miscalculation is possible that could cause an overreaction from one side or the other.

Of course you wouldn't, yet here we are being buffeted by the likes of Cheney, Wolfowitz, Bremer, Kristol and other architects and apologists of a policy so fraught with miscalculation that in another setting it would qualify for criminal prosecution.

Senator McCain's prescription for killing Iranian people, beyond a gross joke, is a reflection of a sad reality: a foreign policy that suffers from severe miscalculations and lack of principles.

Not only is it morally reprehensible to restrict or deny life-saving drugs to those who need them (talk about death panels), it is a colossal miscalculation of public health policy, not to mention fiscally irresponsible.

But the president insisted that his promise that people could "keep their plans" reflected a miscalculation rather than a deliberate policy.