• As the Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist William Safire observed in the New York Times, China may have been encouraged to take this step by the Clinton-Gore team's feckless response to Vladimir Putin's ruthless bid to consolidate his political position.

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  • Rather, America's feckless diplomacy toward Iran to date is the result of the administration's early misunderstanding of Iraq and of Iranian and Arab interests.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The long road to victory

  • More than his failure to pass his domestic agenda on health care and global warming despite his Democratic Party's control over both houses of Congress, Iran's announcement on Thursday that it is a nuclear power and has the capacity to produce weapons-grade uranium is a testament to Obama's feckless incompetence.

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  • Moreover, Olmert has done nothing to stem the Bush administration's abandonment of Israel as a strategic ally and has been so feckless in his handling of Iran's nuclear weapons program that Israel finds itself completely alone to face Iran as the mullahs surge toward nuclear capabilities.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Grimmacing to victory, grinning to defeat

  • Two weeks ago, the United States took an important stand against the United Nation's record of feckless and contemptuous treatment of human rights issues - and its abject failure to take meaningful steps to take long-overdue corrective actions.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: No money for latest U.N. human rights flim-flam

  • George W. Bush talked big about democracy, and wrestled it through to where it stands a chance in Iraq, but otherwise tilted heavily in his second term toward engagement--negotiating with North Korea, hosting Syria at Annapolis, attending the Beijing Olympics and largely turning over the urgent matter of Iran's nuclear ambitions to the feckless care of the European Union and the UN.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Obama, the appeaser?

  • Many Pakistanis considered his refusal to meet Mr Sharif's demands about the judges and President Musharraf as feckless.

    ECONOMIST: Pakistan

  • Efforts to prevent illegal immigration in the U.S. today are ignored, underfunded, openly violated or certifiably feckless.

    FORBES: Illegals With Legal Rights

  • "Financialphobes can be intelligent people who are high achievers in most areas of their lives - they are not irresponsible, feckless or spendthrift, " said Dr Brendan Burchell, of Cambridge University's faculty of social and political sciences.

    BBC: One in five 'suffers banking phobia'

  • "We're dealing with feckless politicians wanting to extend a giveaway because of the optics, " despite the government's huge budget deficit, he said.

    WSJ: Student Debt Sparks a Fight

  • Mrs Merkel and the ECB cannot continue to threaten feckless economies with exclusion from the euro in one breath and reassure markets by promising the euro's salvation with the next.

    ECONOMIST: The euro zone

  • If they jump up and down and say we're against this - Democrats and the Republicans who are against it - and yet still vote to give the president the money he's asking for, would it be far as to call the people in that position spineless or feckless?

    NPR: Troop-Surge Opponents Mull Options

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