If you look at my driver's license I have the same look, and it's it's a pretty disturbing thing but it's something that is really important.

Unfortunately, this ship seems hostage to a confused sense of mission and a distinct lack of urgency.

That is to say, your thoughts and words flit and dart, disconcertedly elusive at times, but when caught and examined ahh, such a wonder, such a delightful reward.

So it is unsettling that policymakers in many Western economies today resemble the second group of pilots.

By seeming to give ground on this point in the effort to win friends and influence people, the IMF has created unnecessary confusion.

And in an age that is sometimes nowadays frightening or confusing, we feel reassured by the almost parental like authority of experts who tell us so clearly what it is we can and cannot do.

The US has rushed to form a confusing coalition with nearly 30 countries, including ten Arab states. How the coalition will be organized and what results it will achieve remain to be seen.

It would be disruptive and possibly even destructive to a State to insist that it must allow the enemy to fly over and land in its territory  While Pakistan did suffer considerable economic loss and severe inconvenience, the existence of alternative routes, even though expensive and much less direct, did make India's action more reasonable.