Isn t that politically unthinkable? One is ineluctably led to the conclusion that governance of the eurozone is irredeemably flawed.

CAMBRIDGE The European Central Bank is moving, hesitantly but ineluctably, toward quantitative easing. The threat of deflation and the ineffectiveness of its previous measures leaves it no choice.

We are being driven slowly but ineluctably to the realization that the people whom we are fighting will, to a significant extent, inherit the shattered countries that we leave behind. They are fighting, after all, for their peoples right to (mis)manage their affairs in their own way.