The closing of Good Hope's emergency room and its inpatient psychiatric unit presented us with a real crisis.

I don't see a crisis on the horizon.

Maybe a crisis isn't apparent to all of us, but it is to them. Decisions are perhaps unpopular, but they're the sentries to see what's coming before the rest of us.

Maybe a crisis isn't apparent to all of us, but it is to them, ... Decisions are perhaps unpopular, but they're the sentries to see what's coming before the rest of us.

With a foreign policy appropriately rooted in some sense of humanitarian decency, the Central African crisis will not be easily ignored by American policymakers. It screams for remedy.

Europe was suffering from a competitiveness crisis.