The future is not what it used to be.

a serious impediment to the kind of smooth transition that we would ideally wish.

His experience and outstanding personal qualities make him ideally qualified to lead the U.N. in tackling the many urgent tasks which it currently faces,

Here we actually went in, created a war that would otherwise not have occurred and now we see a complete political vacuum,

I am really frustrated at not being able to make a contribution towards the resolution of issues which I have had some experience of and feel I could contribute to.

You have to accept the realities of the world in which we live. The U.S. is a superpower. It carries more weight than any other single country.