But it seems further off today than it did back in the old cold war days. Then it seemed that if that stupidity could be sorted out there, and a few local heads get banged together in family squabbles lkke Ireland and the Holy Land, and there was no reason we couldn't get there.

Seems like the stone we were rolling to top of the hill has rolled back down to the bottom on the other side, and it's all to do again.