The Crescent has cast a seemingly interminable shadow across the length of Pakistan.

But fulfilling the ostensible rationale for this seemingly interminable spending orgy success in the so called war on terror does not seem anywhere within reach.

We must give up the hope of liberty within an ordered society and market and resign ourselves to that interminable war of all against all of which Hobbes spoke.

Hence, as he put it in 1932, there may be no escape from prolonged and perhaps interminable depression except by direct state intervention to promote and subsidize new investment which is what the Obama administration is rightly doing.

Intensified strategic dialogue in Brussels in practice boils down to the chilling specter of interminable joint committee meetings at which one nation s ambassador to NATO explains his government s position to a compatriot diplomat who is accredited to the EU, and vice versa.

For a world weary of waiting for the World Trade Organization s interminable Doha trade round to conclude, even a bilateral trade initiative may seem like a boon, especially when, as a recent Financial Times editorial pointed out, bilateral covers half of the world s economy.

The reality is that world leaders have little energy left to dedicate to the seemingly interminable conflict between Israel and Palestine a conflict that they have tried and failed to resolve innumerable times. And, indeed, there are serious doubts as to whether there is a viable alternative to today s frail and sometimes violent status quo.