The journalist John Simpson is the BBC World Affairs editor, and he knows a thing or two about the global situation. This is what he said not long ago: “Sometimes it seems there are so many threats to our life and prosperity that it’s hard to choose which of them to concentrate on. Human existence is becoming a little like one of those video games where you are a soldier dodging down endless corridors with some ludicrously large weapon in your hands, while enemies of every conceivable