If you burn a roast, cooking it any longer doesn't make it any less burnt. If you continue to cook that roast, sooner or later the roast will disintegrate into ashes, and if you don't turn off the oven, the oven will explode in flame and burn down the entire house.While one of the options available to turn failure into success is to learn from your mistake and take corrective action. Sometimes that corrective action is to stop incinerating innocent lives and other country's land and go out for dinner. Steve Young is the author of "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful" and http://www2.dailynews.com/steveyoung">his column appears in the LA Daily News Sunday Opinion page...to the left of O'Reilly's...really.