Over the next few days, ... I will be explaining the American position to leaders in the countries I visit while making it clear that in confronting the clear and present danger posed by Iraqi lawlessness, the diplomatic string is running out.
Today the peace process is in danger -- not because of the people of the region and not because they do not desire peace, but because leaders have failed to take the actions required to realize the possibilities of peace,
We are clearly in the end stretch here. We are giving it the full-court press, and I hope very much that we are able to succeed. But the leaders themselves make the hard decisions -- we cannot do that for them.
This blatant, heavy-handed action is only the latest outrage committed against Aung San Suu Kyi and other party leaders by Burmese authorities,