Can there be a rapprochement?Indeed there can be.
Russia has much to do, both economically and politically, before the new rapprochement with America can be counted a success.
And Israel has probably calculated that a rapprochement led by Obama can be defeated in Congress, especially with its help.
For this sample, the perception of a rapprochement of business models can be supported.
"There can be no rapprochement with Iraq as long as our sons and our prisoners of war are there," said Nasser al-Sanaa, a member of the Kuwaiti Parliament, speaking on Al Jazeera television.
Siding with Mr. Putin may have been Mr. Kim's way of telling Washington that the North Korean missile threat also can be eliminated through diplomacy and rapprochement between North and South Korea.
Even a limited brake on Iran's nuclear programme will mean the agreement can be considered a success:In the best of worlds, it might begin an historic rapprochement between America and Iran.
Theirs, remarkably, was the rapprochement that the hunger strikes helped finally to bring about, by redefining terrorist prisoners as political bargaining chips, whose release can be quietly offered in part-exchange for a cessation of violence.
But let us suppose that no accommodation can be reached, that the depth of Pietersen's calumny in messages to mates in South Africa's team means there can be no rapprochement between him and the England team.
And what is the point of a token effort?Defenders of the rapprochement, such as Bernice McCabe, headmistress of North London Collegiate, a leading private girls' school that is sponsoring an Academy, insist that the circle can be squared.
