Not Solving

David Ignatius, quoting an ex-airline exec in yesterday's column:

The United States used to be good at solving problems. These days, we don't seem up to the job.

Ricardo Raphael, in his own words, today:

In Mexico, politics has turned into the art of solving without solving.

I imagine this has been a pretty constant lament for as long has one generation of mankind has been succeeded by the next, but the similarity is nonetheless striking.