Carefree, foolish, laughing, wise Stubb.

Make haste. I wish to see our Lord's joyous face.

The happy father rushed to the nursery to see his new son.

With cheerful optimism our little Columbus descended, then stopped, stepped, slipped and slid.

Yet the euphoric reaction seen in some quarters is misplaced.

The West, euphoric from its victory over communism and its seemingly unstoppable economic growth, failed to implement necessary structural reforms (Germany and Sweden were rare exceptions).

It is shameful that an international community rejoicing at the end of the cold war has not been able to take more decisive and effective action in respect to the inhuman aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Gado, a renowned cartoonist for one of Kenya s leading newspapers, summed it up best, depicting a jubilant Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki leading a pack of bureaucrats and dogs in suits to Turkana to announce to the people, Rejoice!