It did not, though, mention the failed diplomacy in Brussels and elsewhere that did little to prevent those wars breaking out in the first place.

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" On page 252, "I was deeply disappointed that diplomacy had failed.

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However, once again diplomacy has failed.

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It's now a tool, it's an option that a president should have available to deal with weapons of mass destruction, but it is an option only after diplomacy has failed, which it now emphasizes at the undertake, only after we have tried concerted action together with our allies to resolve these issues peacefully.

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When that argument failed, the search firm put diplomacy aside and stopped the automatic flow of data in the other direction.

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Mr Kerry also says he would open bilateral talks with North Korea and Iran, appoint presidential envoys to the Middle East and for nuclear proliferation, boost aid to failed states, spend more on public diplomacy, stop research and development of new nuclear weapons and even give all Americans a chance to learn a foreign language.

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So far any attempts at diplomacy and dialogue between the Assad government and the opposition have failed.

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But two years of U.N. diplomacy, negotiations and chronic stalemates at the Security Council have so far failed to produce an effective solution in Syria.

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