Instead, he has sought experienced, ageing internationals capable of making an immediate impact.
What we now have to do, once we have consolidated the internal aspects of our project, is turn Europe into an international operator capable of comprehensive action with regard to the challenges facing the world, a world in which nations are too big to resolve their small problems and too small to resolve the big problems we are faced with on a global scale.
And, in the apparent absence of an international order capable of halting such crises, it may well come to be posed in other wars elsewhere.
In the last three years, we've put together a laboratory of international distinction capable of isolating and identifying anthrax in a variety of specimens".
For a moment at least, they can think of their nation as a still-valuable member of the international community, capable of helping others instead of having to seek help.
Failing an international government capable of ultimately determining the issues, nations have not managed to agree on an unequivocal definition of aggression, have not in practice accepted the principle that aggression must be acted against independently of the identity of the perpetrator, and, therefore, have not established the international collective security force envisaged in the Charter.
An international organization, capable of designing a contract that coaxes debtors into a tougher fiscal stance via the provision of cheap senior lending in times of crisis, can work as a commitment device and improve social welfare.
It also criticised the adequacy of current knowledge of the investigative utility of a range of forensic genetic technologies and suggested the establishment of an international 'observatory' capable of collating comparative data on the effectiveness of uses of forensic genetics in support of criminal investigations and prosecutions.
The international community is capable of doing this.
The Congolese international is also capable of the odd spectacular goal.
