Instead, the old Cold War adversaries sat down and worked things out.
After nearly nine months of war, a tentative week-long ceasefire in Yemen began on Tuesday, as representatives from the country's warring parties sat down for make or break peace talks in Switzerland.
"A lot has happened over two decades!" He also said his "Love Actually" co-star, Emma Thompson, is "not remotely sane". The "Star Wars" actor sat down with GQ to talk acting and "ruffling feathers" in terms of Hollywood diversity.
Pursing his lips, the Persian Gulf War veteran then sat down with the steely countenance of a defiant prisoner of war.
So the night the war began, we sat down to dinner with friends on our porch.
A few days before the war began, he sat down with a few reporters and, off the record, predicted that the American invasion would lead to what he called a "rolling civil war".
So, with the launch of Gears of War 2, I sat down for a phone interview with its head design guy, Cliff Blezinski, to talk about the game but not before playing through it myself.
This past October, after nearly four and a half years of civil war in Syria, Iran sat down with the US and its allies to hammer out a diplomatic solution to the crisis, which pits Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, an Iranian ally, against an array of rebel forces.
In the wake of the war in Gaza, I sat down in Tel Aviv with Danny Gold, the retired general who is credited with having invented the Iron Dome.
