But it was not without misadventure.

Indeed, catastrophe could arise simply from technical misadventure error rather than terror.

(ii) Speedy post conflict stockpile control and reduction in order to minimize the both the potential for innocent misadventure and for looting with an intent for intentional misuse

It remains a significant challenge to clearly determine an accurate breakdown of those deaths that occur by misadventure and those that arise from intentional misuse ie the IED problem, although the latter is more easily identified.

Absent any other arrangement, the Kremlin will have to do just that. Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell s doctrine if you break it, you own it applies to Putin s intervention in Ukraine as much as to George W. Bush s misadventure in Iraq.

Europeans might be forgiven for thinking that the Americans, who pumped up oil prices in the first place with their military misadventure in Iraq, should be the ones who pump it down with an energy tax. But, with a Texas oil man in the White House, it won t happen.

America s misadventure in Iraq, its exhaustion as a world power, and its unwillingness to maintain its previous level of commitment to the region have rendered the Sykes Picot structure untenable, because no other external force for order is available. The resulting vacuum has been filled by various currents of political Islam, terrorism, protest movements, uprisings, secession attempts by national or religious minorities, and aspiring regional hegemons (Iran and Saudi Arabia).