"Surely to leave an individual in this kind of limbo, which he was not left in previous to 2003, is not a practice which would commend itself to the civilised world, " he said.

BBC: Legal Aid Bill part two

But those that pushed the domino theory were ultimately unable to prevent the erosion of public support for the Vietnam war and it may be that the time is already past for the theory's echo to steady those who doubt that any project conceived in the West will commend itself to a majority of Afghans.

ECONOMIST: Lessons for Afghanistan

The General Assembly convened in September, but it was not until last week that it could bring itself to commend the secretary-general for his reforms, and then only for the ones mainly reorganisation of the secretariat to make it a bit more efficient that can be carried out, and in most cases have been carried out, without reference to the assembly.

ECONOMIST: The United Nations