Hardly less important, sustaining military commitments once undertaken will demand a national consensus, which existed after 9/11 but which the present administration has since squandered.
By this point, though, "All the Queen's Men" has long since squandered any faith the audience might have had in it.
He has long since squandered any remaining good will from his 2007 postseason heroics, and his surly demeanor, questionable work habits and bloated salary ($15.75 million per year, through 2014) have made him a figure of scorn at Fenway Park.
He has made and squandered several fortunes since then, and missed out on a few more, notably in 1976, when he declined to buy a third of Apple Computer, for fifty thousand dollars.
Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts said in an interview that the administration had squandered a year since the attacks, by failing to make "the preparations necessary to properly deal with an obvious problem of growing terror and the threat at home".
But Alejandro Toledo, the president since 2001, squandered an unrivalled opportunity.
Yet here she is, in Birmingham, at her second annual gathering of the Conservative tribe since she squandered the Commons majority won by David Cameron in 2015.
The danger is that this, the biggest opportunity for reform since 1945, is squandered in a race for electoral advantage.
Since the Nets squandered a 21-point lead in the fourth quarter of Game 3 in Boston, they surged back and won three straight games.
The NUS-USI president added: "This opportunity has been squandered, and in the week since the talks ended there has been little positive action.
