What is desirable is not always possible. Human rights, respect for the rule of law, asylum and immigration problems, are all areas where a certain degree of dissatisfaction and indignation is normal and even almost obligatory. People and bodies that take on these tasks have their work cut out for them, justifiably so because shortcomings must be denounced.
It has to be understood, however, that what is desirable is not always possible. The French foreign affairs minister is often...