A similar thing happened to Menachem Begin, who was forced into retirement after the failure of the Lebanon invasion in 1982 and the international opprobrium heaped Israel’s way after it essentially winked at a massacre of Palestinian civilians by Lebanese Christian militiamen later that year.

Learned a new word today…

op·pro·bri·um /əˈprōbrēəm/ noun harsh criticism or censure. “his films and the critical opprobrium they have generated”

the public disgrace arising from someone’s shameful conduct. “the opprobrium of being closely associated with gangsters”