Fozz, you need to pay greater attention.

"Crisis? What Crisis?" was merely referring to the difficulty that nations always have in regard to balancing national and international considerations. There is no contradiction, as this article also highlights such a difficulty. Perhaps you can provide the answers to the world's woes.

But I am glad you refer to me now as being once part of the simplistic Left. It balances a previous blog comment on another site that I am a 'bromidic lunar righter'.