The real alternatives to diplomacy are much worse: either rapid descent to a North Korea situation, with an unsupervised nuclear program leading inexorably to nuclear weapons and all their dangerously unpredictable regional consequences; or an...

That did not just happen,

While peaceful efforts to bring about the disarmament and repatriation of the FDLR are crucial, the time has come to increase the military pressure against them

One is tempted to think the fall is on the back of the Gedrman elections given it’s not the best of outcomes with such a narrow majority,

Certainly [opposition candidate Edmund] Stoiber would have been better received by the market because of his plans for structural reform. The government has not got much of a majority so we can’t expect much on...

The stakes could hardly be higher. Neither side appears eager for a second war, but the situation is very fragile and to dismiss current tensions as mere saber-rattling would be a serious mistake.

I’m gutted and feeling a bit lost, but I’m determined to get through it.

He’s a great performer and then he’s got the greatest convening power of anyone now in the world, I think, and the greatest capacity to articulate things that matter.

This compromise should be compared neither to the fragile and unsustainable status quo, nor to some idealized, universally comfortable end-state.

Bold action is needed to address this threat and, above all, to protect the civilian population

The trouble is that all of the steps that have been taken so far don’t seem likely to produce an acceptable outcome.

There is still evidence that analyst forecasts of corporate earnings were still too high considering the economic backdrop.