What is not yet clear is the extent to which hefailed because of a lack of ability on his own part, or as a result of the dearth of talent available to him.
He prides himself on being strategic, yet oddly failed to anticipate either the rising public concern over pensions or the broad welcome that Lord Turner's reform blueprint would receive.
Today, rather than acknowledge his failure, Olmert is using the disclosure of IAF attacks in Sudan as yet a new way to obfuscate the fact that for three years and two months he has failed to adequately protect the state.