It's remarkable how keen voyagers become to throw their fellow passengers to the sharks once the boat gets leaky.
It's time for straight talking among nations. Of course it's open season on the USA now, post Standard and Poors, with India climbing into the pulpit, and China warning that the US needs to cure itself of its 'debt addiction' (a little like your drug dealer advising you to lay off the hard stuff) and to do away with its 'bloated social security spending'. (Chinese style of welfare for the US - that should appeal to the Tea Party.) Oh, and of course China recommends defence cuts. Maybe axing patent protection efforts could come nest.
Elsewhere Saudi Arabia, that bastion of human rights, is telling Syria it really has gone beyond the pale. And the Iranian police have contacted London's Metropolitan Police advising them to show restraint in dealing with rioters.
There's always someone available to put you right.
