That, and answer for the tragic man-made disaster to the citizens of the Gulf and the world.
But we will never know, since the shortage of American troops and the lack of postwar planning made disaster inevitable.
Conflict in the Middle East is a man-made disaster that has the potential to take a turn to the dark side with lasting consequences.
Then, the new shares, like water pressing down on a fault line, will cause the earth to shake, driving down the market in a man-made disaster.
And historically there was the additional fear that the precious store of knowledge accumulating as the world grew in wisdom might be lost by natural or man-made disaster.
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The BP Oil Spill was unique in that it was a man-made disaster, played out in slow motion over months and televised from the bottom of the sea.
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Despite its inherent illogic, the notion that last week's massive, cascading electrical blackout was a "wake-up" call seems now to have become as much a part of the political landscape as has the effort to assign blame for this costly man-made disaster.
It made the disaster immediate in a way that news cams could not with their wide lenses and professional capturing of the aftermath.
The first goose I made was a disaster, a tough bird swimming in fat.
But even when the ship is gone in September or October, the memories of Friday 13th in January 2012 will remain vivid here -- the night disaster made Giglio notorious.
The Challenger disaster had made us that much more committed to our space program.
Sayid Tussadau Hussein(ph) was just one of the millions of Pakistanis made homeless by the disaster.
Chaotic disputes over the Greens' anti-nuclear, anti-business programme made this experiment a disaster.
That is, that Dodd-Frank and the European Parliament have just made the next securitisation disaster both more likely and more damaging when it does happen?
U.S. regulators, safety advocates and the industry are now debating whether safety changes imposed after the disaster have made the nation's 65 nuclear plants safer.
This provides certainty and peace of mind for those in the Gulf if there was any wonder or concern that they would not be made whole for the disaster they didn't cause.
And the factors which made Murray's victory so heart-tugging also made it a potential disaster the pressure upon Team GB athletes to deliver at these games is comical, and had Murray faltered against Federer twice in one month on another global stage, you can only imagine the brutal headlines.
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Following the Bureau of Economic Analysis, they acknowledge that disaster losses are made up of two components (destruction of assets and the disruption of the flow of capital), making them different from economic losses.
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As of this morning, FEMA has more than 400 personnel already on the ground supporting the response, including three national Urban Search and Rescue Teams, an Incident Management Assistance Team, as well as personnel focused on helping survivors register for and receive the federal assistance made available by the major disaster declaration signed by the President on Monday night.
What made the Gulf situation so frustrating however is that a certain amount of unnecessary complexity may have contributed to the disaster in the first place and afterwards made it harder to resolve.
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From a safety perspective, the mixture of regulatory authority and industry support made it difficult to insist on compliance to disaster prevention standards.
The near-disaster and festering economic situation in Greece made all Eurozone creditors very nervous.
"This disaster did not end the day Katrina made landfall, " Brown told CNN.
In an earlier post, I made the argument that replacement refs would be a disaster for the NFL. I stand by that point.
One deadbeat client made cash flow tight but wasn't a disaster.
"It has been proven in a court of law that the drowning of New Orleans was not a natural disaster, but a preventable man-made travesty, " the attorneys said in a statement.
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Criticism of the disaster has sprung in part from decisions made over the design of the BP well, which used a single pipe, known as a "long string", that ran from the sea floor to the bottom of the well.
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