The only visible difference is that peacemakers like Roed-Larsen are nowhere to be found.
Terje Roed-Larsen, the United Nations special envoy here, told the Security Council on Friday that peacemakers had a "narrow window of opportunity," though he called the situation "very fragile".
Former President Bill Clinton, who narrowly failed to clinch a Middle East peace deal in the last months of his presidency, told the forum on Sunday night that peacemakers "have known for two years what more or less a final agreement would be".
Blessed indeed are the peacemakers -- and of course you know that by "peacemaker" I mean the classic revolver that "won the West".
Such global unity was something that no peacemaker, politician or prophet had ever quite achieved.
At Charlton, he helped come up with a line of action heroes, including Blue Beetle, the Question and the Peacemaker, that would later be purchased by DC Comics and become the basis for the characters in "Watchmen," which was adapted into a feature film last year.
While the diplomatic acrobatics resulted in another deferment, a deadly encounter in the West Bank served as a reminder of the palpable challenges that Middle East peacemakers face.
Or, maybe, because she knows that while peacemakers are blessed, they might be doubly blessed if just a few more of them were mapmakers.
The Dalai Lama knows that other peacemakers have broken the ice with bold initiatives to prove their seriousness; we discussed Sadat's visit to Israel as one such move.
And for all his practiced wisdom, Lieberman can't fix it -- which is Kaminsky's ironic reminder that the peacemakers, along with the meek, are still worlds away from inheriting the earth.
