To be sure, I don't doubt that the technology failed. I meant only that it was surely not a case of political will to action being stymied by failing technolog

To be sure, I don't doubt that the technology failed. I meant only that it was surely not a case of political will to action being stymied by failing technology, but rather something between political inertia and will to inaction meeting happily with the failing technology which was, after all, its bequest.