That old diplomatic mindset and those well known diplomatic habits…

The same ritualised, practiced response, the speaking about ‘process’ and ‘bargaining’ and the stressing of the horrible fate of those who have been ‘caught in the middle’ — when of course, there is no middle — of a ’summit collapse’ or an end to ‘dialogue’. From Sudan to Zimbabwe to Burma … so it goes …always the same symbolic, liturgist excrement.