Further to that there has to be a review of the outmoded and, frankly, juvenile insistence that a player who leads the side in the Test arena must, almost as of right, do so in one-day internationals, irrespective of form or ability, as if that lends some sort of stability to everything.
Those wars and lack of stability triggered everything from poaching and land destruction to disease and starvation.
"But the Greek crisis and the whole debate over the stability of the euro have changed everything.
The politicians would be wiser to see cyberspace as a template for a new era of corporate self-regulation.Consumers in rich countries have grown used to the idea that the government takes responsibility for everything from the stability of the banks that take their deposits to the safety of the drugs on sale in the local pharmacy, or their rights to refunds when goods are faulty.
Look into everything from the stability of the currency to the growth potential of the property market.
For a party that places stability above everything else, this could be a clincher.China will enjoy the Schadenfreude of watching Mr Obama's struggle with a recalcitrant democracy.
"It's important for us primarily for the long term guarantees of political stability and then everything else - the single market too," Croatia's First Deputy Prime Minister, Vesna Pusic, told the BBC.
Stability trumps everything.
In today's Russia, as Politkovskaya wrote, stability is everything and damn the cost.
It is thus understandable if hapless health managers now crave stability above everything else.
