The large influx of returnees placed enormous strain on the already overburdened health services.

And when it's finished the exhausted female turtle crawls back to the sea halfdead.

Millions die each year, either of outright starvation or from infectious diseases that their weakened bodies cannot withstand.

The same skeptics repeat their tired opposition without reference to a decade of evidence.

My wishes were for Bashar Al Assad to leave, for the bombing of Aleppo to stop and for the exhausting interrogations to end.

It might even find, along the way, a new and urgently needed motivation to reinforce its fraying unity.

Libya that has vast territories and lands along the Mediterranean, the same Libya suffers unjustified poverty

Five years after the global financial crisis, too many countries are being held back by exhausted and out dated growth engines.

The reality is that countries such as Tanzania have been forced to grant refugee status en masse as a consequence of the overburdened administrative capacities of receiving States.

Doomed to slow growth, the US of today, like the exhausted Britain that emerged from World War II, will be forced to curtail its international commitments.

The wind from the East blew through the African continent, where exhausted and traumatized populations accepted unprecedented sacrifices and waged a ruthless battle against the military regimes in power.

A particularly telling example is the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars of the early nineteenth century, when a string of exhausted states defaulted on their obligations.

The potential for an overstretched US facing increased demands, the NIC argues, is greater than the risk of the US being replaced as the world s preeminent political leader.

Irrespective of their condition, those who can no longer respond to the heavy physical demands of portering are reportedly routinely abandoned without food, or simply executed on the spot.

Despite the growing promise of a multi polar world with Asian powers playing a greater role in addressing global challenges and sharing leadership with a weary US, that world does not yet exist.

And the debilitating corruption tax that seems inevitably to accompany economic revolutions must be curbed, as it was in Britain during the nineteenth century and America during the twentieth.

Musharraf s fraying authority made him less effective and, indeed, less useful the Taliban re emerged in strength on Pakistan s Afghan border, and his own ISI was proved to have been involved in the bombing of India s embassy in Kabul.

While misguided Washington policymakers would like nothing better than for consumers to return to their old risky ways and start spending again, over extended American households now know better.

The West can and must prevail in this fight and in the defense of the values that it cherishes. It might even find, along the way, a new and urgently needed motivation to reinforce its fraying unity.

Today, thousands of children continue to be abducted to serve as soldiers with armed forces and groups throughout Africa and I urge the international community and African Governments to give the utmost priority to addressing the critical issues of youth and unemployment, and in particular the debilitating problems of child soldiers.

The region s modernization crisis is being compounded by the partial withdrawal of an exhausted force for order, the United States. This is fueling tremendous anxiety in the region and has contributed to the overthrow of existing alliances and the search for new ones.