Because what could be the who of people, but it could also be the what of the situation, and obviously that's wrongheaded.

Simply put, historic guilt is no longer adequate to compel Germany to support Israel s wrongheaded policies especially when those policies are victimizing another group, the Palestinians. Israel s current leaders should take note.

The international system s failure to address effectively the nuclear issue in the Middle East stems mostly from the Russia US divide, to which wrongheaded American strategy has contributed mightily. Russia cannot want a nuclear Iran.

Indeed, wrongheaded policymaking continued long after the crisis began. Politicians responded to worsening economic conditions by hewing as closely as possible to failed prescriptions, making sure to do no more than absolutely necessary to address the biggest economic disaster since the Great Depression.

A distorted view of the present is the worst way to prepare for the challenges of the future. To describe the struggle against international terrorism as World War IV, as the leading American neo conservative Norman Podhoretz does in his new book, is wrongheaded in any number of ways.

So the protests by highly educated Indians against reserved places is not only wrongheaded, but dangerous as well. Unless India s highly educated stand up for better schools for all, protests against caste preferences will only succeed in heightening tensions and selling newspapers, rather than improving the lives of India s destitute.

Throughout the so called war on terror, the notion of a clash of civilization between Islam and the West has usually been dismissed as politically incorrect and intellectually wrongheaded. Instead, the most common interpretation has been that the world has entered a new era characterized by conflict within a particular civilization, namely Islam, with fundamentalist Muslims as much at war against moderates as against the West.