Monthly self-examination has been abandoned in favor of breast awareness after several clinical trials showed that monthly self-examination did not save lives.
In 2008, however, it abandoned its self-sufficiency programme when it discovered that farmers were burning their way through water which comes from a non-replenishable aquifer below the Arabian sands at a catastrophic rate.
Yet as Europe's immediate response to the Dubai operation makes clear, Europe itself has abandoned the sober-minded pursuit of its own interests, in favor of cowardly, feckless, self-defeating rhetoric.