And the videogame business has seen its share of "unstoppable" systems--Trip Hawkin's ill-fated 3DO system leaps to mind--that faltered on market forces beyond their control.
Not the kind of puzzle you buy at the museum that has a little print of Monet's haystacks on it, mind you, but one of those 5, 000-piece monsters that forces you to recreate every inch of Michelangelo's Creation of Adam.
Olmert's ideologically driven political and strategic mind-sets caused him to prosecute both wars as little more than mindless, violent engagements with enemy forces.