Each has been at the center of a policy disaster.
But even with the most generous possible assessment, this is the administration's second big policy disaster, after Iraq.
But a real policy disaster was invariably explained as a situation that could yet be restored.
When the reality of a policy disaster hits one in the face, there are a couple of ways to deal with it.
That powerful fact often seems forgotten in the wake of the current policy disaster.
"If this situation is not cleared up it becomes a policy disaster," he said.
But you did not discuss it in regard to what has turned out to be the major foreign policy disaster of this Administration.
So we can in part blame him for what is already being called the greatest foreign policy disaster since Suez.
Labour supporters really really shouldn't talk about foreign policy disasters, don't you think?
Otherwise, you're letting yourself in for a foreign policy disaster.