Peters proving useful

One can only praise the efforts of Winston Peters to stop the Fijian coup, and it is a credit that he has at least got the PM and the Commodore to meet each other in NZ with talks brokered by him.

Peters went to (I think) school or university with the Commodore and is an old acquaintance so he has a better chance than most of achieving something.

The chance of a coup is still high. If another one does happen it will reinforce why allowing even one coup to be sucessful is a very bad thing – they become an accepted political action.