A political solution is required.

The days and weeks ahead will severely test this new government, and the solution to Iraq's current challenges will take years, not months, to overcome.

There again, that is a fundamental principle: no two situations are alike.

In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars.

There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.

To leave Afghanistan as a playground for terrorists and adventurers was simply not possible anymore.