The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as 'failed states.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.
The failure of the White House and Congress to seriously address the nation's fiscal situation is certain to broaden the belief among many voters that the U.S. political system is broken.
I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.
The United States is a concept that works very well, even in bad times. But that's no reason to think its structure can be superimposed with success on any other part of the world, particularly when times are terrible.
We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
Failure is a word unknown to me.
States are like people. They do not question the awful status quo until some dramatic event overturns the conventional and lax way of thinking.
We have a failed state in Syria.
We need some great failures. Especially we ever-successful Americans - conscious, intelligent, illuminating failures.