So was the outbreak of war against Iraq the result of a colossal diplomatic failure?

That would explain the decades of diplomatic failures, broken contacts, each side certain the other was lying through its teeth.

In the last four years, South Africa has had other diplomatic failures as well.

As a theater commander-in-chief, he was paid to consider diplomatic failure rather than success.

This result was a diplomatic failure and de Montmorency fell out of royal favor.

But the explosion was also the product of more than two decades of diplomatic failure, spread over at least three presidencies.

This war crowns a period of terrible diplomatic failure, Washington's worst in at least a generation.

A world grown accustomed to human disaster in the face of diplomatic failure has more to hope for in the coming days.

This fear materialized with the diplomatic failure leading up to the invasion of Iraq.

In spite of his military and diplomatic failures, Louis proved to be a popular king.