An apology

Sorry and all that; I'm buzzing round like a blue-arsed fly at the moment. Only time for an SSdB, but numerous articles (including the long-promised Ezra Pound one!) are stacked up over Heathrow:

• The USA has come up with a clever form of words for its resolution which "it would be difficult to disagree with on factual grounds" and has mistaken this for diplomacy. World powers like France often go to war when they don't want to purely because of having been caught in clever syllogisms.