I think that proceeding on our own without the full support and cooperation of the UN as a joint move wouldn't be a "bold & decisive effort to do the right thing". It would be arrogant. Why do we always think we know better than anyone else?

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.