Thus far our strategy has failed to achieve our political objectives,

it doesn't look like that is going to happen by anything we've heard thus far.

Putting a tiger in a lions den doesnt make it any less dangerous

The only thing Google has failed to do, so far, is fail.

I have to be very happy with the game. We set out to achieve one of our season's objectives by reaching the cup final, and produced another good performance.

Never underestimate the ability of political leaders to misread history on a monumental scale. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan have both served to hasten western decline: they have both failed to achieve their objectives and in the process demonstrated an underlying western impotence.