Until now they have enjoyed exceptionally good international conditions.
We can slow them down force them to reinvent the wheel without bombing, especially if the international conditions get better".
"Even so, the timing and speed of a recovery in international conditions are, as yet, far from clear," Mr. Macfarlane said.
We can slow them down — force them to reinvent the wheel — without bombing, especially if the international conditions get better".
First, the Security Council is still hostage to institutional arrangements -- most clearly the veto -- that no longer dovetail with the existing international conditions or the real distribution of power.
Mr. Ban did not meet officials of Hamas, which has refused international conditions of acceptance, including renouncing violence and recognizing Israel's right to exist.
The Syrian expatriate affairs minister, Buthaina Shaaban, told Al Jazeera television, "Olmert is ready for peace with Syria on the grounds of international conditions; on the grounds of the return of the Golan Heights in full to Syria".
Greater American activism is justified by the inability of Israelis and Palestinians to move forward on their own and by the changed international conditions created by the war against terrorism.
"You know, when I first started in journalism," a veteran reporter says in Evelyn Waugh's 1938 novel "Scoop," "I used to think that foreign correspondents spoke every language under the sun and spent their lives studying international conditions.
China's Politburo met last week and, according to the official statement, the government plans to keep growth steady in the second half of this year, amid the "extremely complicated domestic and international conditions".
