They claimed that in light of police ineptness they are left with no choice.

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Two years later, when the interim regimes had proved their ineptness and Chuan was returned to power, he proudly brought back Tarrin and Supachai.

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Yet, overall, America's declining image among Arabs has owed less to al-Jazeera than to unpopular American policies, and to Washington's ineptness at selling them.

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Ineptness at the Rural Payments Agency, the bit of government charged with distributing agricultural subsidies, led to seriously delayed payment for hundreds of farmers and the resignation of its boss in 2006.

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The theory of moral hazard is that when a company financially fails due to its own ineptness, a bail out is morally reprehensible because the action rewards a company for its own failures.

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But some, like former top diplomat Kanwal Sibal, believe the decision to return the marines is actually a "sorry commentary on the ineptness of Italian diplomacy", rather than a big triumph for the Indians.

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The only significant decline in the demand for oil and other commodities will come from Europe as we begin to see the European banking system implode due to exorbitant leverage and the ineptness of the European Central Bank and the IMF to solve the crisis.

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