Bono in the NY Times on British Prime Minister David Cameron’s apology for Bloody Sunday:

If there are any lessons for the world from this piece of Irish history … for Baghdad … for Kandahar … it’s this: things are quick to change for the worse and slow to change for the better, but they can. They really can. It takes years of false starts, heartbreaks and backslides and, most tragically, more killings. But visionaries and risk-takers and, let’s just say it, heroes on all sides can bring us back to the point where change becomes not only possible again, but inevitable.

Let’s hope that visionaries and risk-takers can help defuse tensions in the many other ongoing conflicts in the world.