The International Criminal Court cannot succeed alone.

Some call this isolationism, but it might better be called prudence or pragmatism. After all, President Dwight D. Eisenhower refused in 1954 to send US troops to save the French at Dien Bien Phu because he feared that they would be swallowed up by the divisions in Vietnam.

We imagine there are only two choices either full engagement and troop deployment or total isolation.

Lonely people perpetuate their own loneliness through their fear of others.

Lonely people tend to be afraid of meeting others, which ensures they will always be lonely.

In others, they can be combined with military pressure to weaken and isolate rebel groups or States that are in flagrant violation of Security Council resolutions.

One Hundred Days of Solitude

Islands of Isolation

Orphan Ideas

Guilt, after all, is a poor motivator for international action. Even the UK and France the only two countries that were not shy about threatening military action against Assad s regime got cold feet when confronted with the possibility of going it alone.

Egypt s military regime, led by General Abdel Fattah el Sisi, has been unrelentingly hostile toward Hamas, blaming it for the fighting in Sinai between the army and insurgent groups. Egypt even mounted an operation to destroy the tunnels between Gaza and Sinai, isolating Gaza completely.

Isolating Israel

France Alone?

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The orphan near in relationship,

Of a related orphan,

Of a related orphan,

to an orphan near of kin

to an orphan near of kin

An orphan, of kin,

An orphan, of kin,

To an orphan near of kin.

To an orphan near of kin.

An orphan near of kin.

An orphan near of kin.

to an orphan near of kin

to an orphan near of kin

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An orphan near of kin,

an orphan among relatives

an orphan among relatives

to an orphaned relative

to an orphaned relative

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an orphaned relative

an orphaned relative

To an orphan, having relationship,

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of an orphaned relative

of an orphaned relative

To the orphan with claims of relationship,

To the orphan with claims of relationship,

It's great to be out there with a partner when things are going good, but when you're out there individually, then you're tested to the full of your capacity as a golfer.

I have fought in wars, feared for my own survival, watched my cohorts die on beaches and woods that look and feel more real than any textbook or any news story.