Earlier this month, America had failed to swing its fellow permanent members of the Security Council, Britain apart, to accept the response it wanted to Iraq's defiance.
Is the appropriate response to accept that it was mere bad luck to run into such a rare event or to get new forecasting models that assume more storms in future?
The less-than-optimal response is continued full confidence in my original belief, and a refusal to accept the possibility that the new reality is true.