Friday, December 19, 2008
Losing Breathing Room
Sometimes, temporary agreements are meant to create breathing room in the hopes that over time, a more permanent arrangement can be negotiated (or tempers can cool). This hope in terms of the Hamas-Israel cease-fire over Gaza appears to have been in vain. The truce comes to an end with no further progress.
It also appears that the power-sharing talks for Zimbabwe, an attempt to begin to negotiate what the shape of a post-Mugabe state might look like, are also breaking down.
So we have two reviving crises to add to the plate for January 2009.
It also appears that the power-sharing talks for Zimbabwe, an attempt to begin to negotiate what the shape of a post-Mugabe state might look like, are also breaking down.
So we have two reviving crises to add to the plate for January 2009.
