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We thought we had some insights that would help to avert such failures in the future.
We believe the 9/11 attacks revealed four kinds of failures: in imagination, policy, capabilities, and management.
(Actually, some of the bombs were pretty good movies, like Wolf and Remains of the Day, while others, like the much-maligned Last Action Hero with Arnold Schwarzenegger, were failures in an interesting way.)
We were all--businessmen and staff--impressed with the failures of policy that caused the Depression and that may have contributed to the outbreak of war.
The NYT points out that the World Bank's action to stop loans for an electrical power grid not only hits India--a country frequently affected by power failures and shortages--hard, but also serves as a signal to Pakistan about what sorts of sanctions it can expect if it responds to India with a nuclear test of its own.