It can only be hoped that this occasion will mark the beginning of what Bogart once called "a beautiful friendship" -- replete with more active U.S. leadership in ending the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict, alleviating its counterproductive repercussions for relations between this country and Azerbaijan and introducing a new, and far more engaged, American policy in the region.
In all, not the sort of testimony that would bolster a prosecutor's confidence, and there was more of the kind, replete with the accuser's changing stories.