Who shall stand against the common wisdom when it is wrong about deterrence, wrong about the causes of war, wrong about the state of the world, wrong about the ambitions of ascendant nations, wrong about history, and wrong about human nature?
Obama appears also to believe that the USA bears much of the blame for what is wrong in the world.
This squad of players has consistently proved people wrong around the world.
Meanwhile, Derek Hatton, the former politician and scouse spokesman, explained how proving the world wrong is part of the DNA of scousers.
Mr. ARTHUR BLANK (Owner and CEO, Atlanta Falcons): Regardless of the outcome of this case, this issue has put a spotlight in one of those things that remains wrong in this world, the notion that anyone would participate in dog fighting is incomprehensible to me.
People are often prepared to say they are right and the world is wrong.
Her quiet leadership would continue long after she became an icon of the civil rights movement, working with Congressman Conyers to find homes for the homeless, preparing disadvantaged youth for a path to success, striving each day to right some wrong somewhere in this world.
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So if the world got it wrong, Mr Hussein got it wronger: he is out of power and in jail.
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Love or hate deficits, the simple truth is that right or wrong, investors around the world line up to buy the debt that the U.S. Treasury issues.
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I've heard patients describe this experience as being like looking at the world through the wrong end of a telescope, so that everything seems smaller and distorted.
But, he adds, a backlash against immigrants who are among the most downtrodden in the world is the wrong answer, and one that his movement will fight.
So if the world got it wrong, Saddam got it wronger: his bluffing over what have turned out to be nonexistent weapons has left him out of power and in jail.
He may have gotten his conclusion on the Islamabad Marriott wrong (like with the World Trade Center, it seems the bad guys had become particularly fixated on this target), but he clearly is focused on the right places and trends.
Even the luminaries in the quant fund world have gotten it wrong in the volatility.
"I know the risk and I know what happens when it goes wrong, " he told BBC World Service.
Unfortunately, too many people across the publishing world have learnt the wrong lessons from the music industry and Hollywood.
Because in the old world, getting stuff wrong was unacceptable.
And from my view of the world, that is the wrong kind of faith.
At least until the wrong parents bring the ugliest of real world forces into play to ruin it.
"People who have been affected by this wrong decision are spread all over the world, " said Ahmet Yilmaz, 43, from Turkey.
She compares Facebook to "The Truman Show, " the 1998 Jim Carrey movie about a fabricated world where nothing ever goes wrong.
Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.
It would please the few misguided MPs who still imagine that the press was wrong to shine light into the murky world of parliamentary expenses.
Whatever it is, upcoming first-person-horror title Among the Sleep places you inside the mind and body of a two-year-old who awakens to a nightmarish world of imagination gone horribly wrong.
"His first serves didn't go over 90 miles per hour, so something obviously was wrong with his shoulder, " said world No. 2 Djokovic, the beaten finalist in Cincinnati last year and also 2008 and 2009.
Samsung had planned to unveil the Nexus Prime in San Diego today, but has said it would be wrong to introduce the device while the world was still paying tribute to the Apple co-founder who died last week, according to BBC News.
The hype of Davos does not present a desired image to the world...something is wrong.
And that is clearly and obviously wrong, entirely at odds with the real world that we inhabit.
"It's very hard to be so established in the art world that you can do no wrong, " he says.
That proved the wrong decision as the lethargic Scots stumbled into World Cup qualifying and ended a campaign before it really began.
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