A period after "failure" is appropriate.
But why is this a surprise?
I get a kick out of the news stories this morning. A few years ago, Europe couldn’t stop flapping their gums about our cowboy President and how much they disliked us for taking an active role in world affairs. Now they’re wetting themselves because we aren’t taking an active role. Maybe they realized Libya really isn’t that far away from them. They like them American cowboys when they see they might be in the middle of a stampede.
Without American leadership the Chinese will own us and Obama has put them to the half way point.He’s one dangerous SOB.