Our leaders get a lot of flak, much (most?) of it no doubt deserved. But let's at least recognise that they've got some pretty intractable problems to deal with. True, they have a team of experts to help them grapple with matters such as Afghanistan and Iran, to take just two "stories" much in the news at the moment. But what IS the solution? Perhaps there isn't really one, other than a long, hard slog such as the seemingly endless (but ultimately successful) struggle in Northern Ireland.
These remarks are prompted by my daughter's experience at the Minister of Immigration, Integration, National Identity and Development Solidarity, where she has direct or indirect experience of, and sometimes responsibility for, immigration, legal or otherwise, and such highly charged subjects as compulsory repatriation. She sees at first hand that government policy is sometimes a matter of doing what one can in an almost impossible situation.
I'm not suggesting for a moment that we should give our lords and masters an easier ride, but perhaps we could at least from time to time recognise the complexity and intractability of the problems confronting them.
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