Mr Ozawa, however, has never stopped behaving like a faction boss.
"He has stopped behaving like a twit since the marriage," a veteran observer of European politics agreed.
Although I'd admire them a hell of a lot more if they stopped behaving like children and held a press conference and released the minutes of the meetings.
In this brave new postelection world, lawmakers on both sides stopped behaving like players in some Beltway version of the battle at Armageddon and started behaving like, well, lawmakers.
Mr. Sarkozy reportedly joked that to conduct airstrikes, it would be necessary "to step over the body of Juppé." Mr. Juppé denies having been taken by surprise, but he reportedly threatened to quit unless Mr. Sarkozy stopped behaving unilaterally.
The theory and practice of counter-insurgency leads everyone to incant the cliché that there is no military solution; but it is a cliché because it is true, so it is time that we stopped behaving as if there were a military solution and developed a political one.
