1. Multiples – price–to–earnings ratios – have not changed much compared with previous periods, Eckstein said, adding that the relatively intense volubility originates overseas, not at home, and most notably from the U.S.

2. It is now painfully easy to survey the meaningless volubility of the international community on a "responsibility to protect" civilians in Darfur, thanks to an important new resource from the Coalition for International Justice: a 387-page "Chronology of Reporting on Events Concerning the Conflict in Darfur, Sudan" (February 2006, http://www.cij.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=homepage). This massive assemblage of data, determinations, and statements offers countless examples not simply of Khartoums relentless mendacity and its campaign of deliberate misinformation, but also of ill-informed, disingenuous, and spineless declarations by Western leaders nominally engaged on Darfur.

3. It is now painfully easy to survey the meaningless volubility of the international community on a "responsibility to protect" civilians in Darfur, thanks to an important new resource from the Coalition for International Justice: a 387–page "Chronology of Reporting on Events Concerning the Conflict in Darfur, Sudan" (February 2006, http://www.cij.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=homepage). This massive assemblage of data, determinations, and statements offers countless examples not simply of Khartoums relentless mendacity and its campaign of deliberate misinformation, but also of ill–informed, disingenuous, and spineless declarations by Western leaders nominally engaged on Darfur.