Well there are steps we can take to navigate our way through the morass.

The late President Ziaur Rahman led Bangladesh out of the morass of a failed democracy in 1975.

CAMBRIDGE It is time for the world s major central banks to acknowledge that a sudden burst of moderate inflation would be extremely helpful in unwinding today s epic debt morass.

Some analysts argue that, given guarantees of debt incurred by public corporations, the Greek government s obligations are even higher. To escape from this morass, Greece needs a massive debt write down.

Yet, history is unfair, and the US, despite its greater responsibility for today s global crisis, may emerge in better shape than most countries from the morass. In better shape, but not alone.

The pursuit of this mission impossible would inevitably plunge Member States into a morass of bitter debate for an unpredictable period of time, taking other critical reforms hostage, including those that affect development, human rights, management of the Secretariat and collective international security.

Understandably, the exposure of the IPL as a morass of deceit, discredited by spot fixing episodes engineered by unscrupulous bookies and venal players, has deflated such heady notions. Cricket continues to hold many Indians in thrall, but many others have forsaken it in the wake of the IPL revelations.

The truth that politicians (David Cameron s UK government excluded, at least for now) are reluctant to admit is that Western Europe s current morass is distinct from the global US made downturn. Old Europe has entered into a severe and intractable crisis of the welfare state as ordinary Europeans have come to know it.

Such long term unpredictability is why the former European Union foreign policy high representative Javier Solana and former NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer assert that talks in Geneva are the only viable way out of the Syrian morass. An agreement last month between US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov to launch a new political process for Syria, Geneva II, marked a possible opportunity but hope is waning even before the talks begin.