Low-cost carriers are reluctant to jump into the international arena. It requires long planning horizons, sometimes years of diplomacy.

military planning is well under way in NATO, with the full support of EU member states, in case diplomacy alone proves inadequate.

Sincere diplomacy is no more possible than dry water or wooden iron.

Iran is five to 10 years away from having a nuclear weapon. We have time to try diplomacy.

It should make the intolerable delays a thing of the past.

I think United has proven its plan is viable. It has won over many skeptics. Its service quality performance is stellar. Its labor costs are low. Its shift to [more profitable] international markets appear to be focused and working.