Failed State or SuperPower?

When commentators talk about Pakistan being “a failing state,” what exactly do they mean? Don’t they owe it to their readers to define what they mean by the term before branding Pakistan a “failing state”? Or has “failing state” become just another buzzword for these commentators, along with such other fashionable buzzwords as “rogue state” and “terrorist state”?

They (the reporters/commentators) take for granted that their readers are fool. :)

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*Originally posted by Zabardast: *
All states are bound to fail and break. Its only a question of time. :)
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The Chinese say its one big cycle... Empires fall, empires are built, and then they fall again, and on and on we go.