09.21.07 - 01:07pm
Interpreting the Iranian president’s request to lay a wreath at the site of the World Trade Centre terror attacks is a complex undertaking but interpreting the hysterical reaction to it is all too easy - and alarming.
09.13.07 - 09:56am
Right now, when it comes to Iran, every shard of metal is a smoking gun; in a classic case of doublethink, while we threaten Iran it is Iran who are the threat; as America and Israel actually train nuclear missiles at Iran the slightest indication that Iran might one day get a bomb of its own justifies the most horrific aggression; and the decisions have already been made, war is inevitable.
09.11.07 - 09:55am
Petraeus went to Washington and told Congress that the surge had produced a minimal gain in security but that by next summer he would be able to withdraw 30,000 troops. I am sure the notion that the US military is to withdraw 30,000 troops is going to play well with an American public exasperated and exhausted by the war, but if that withdrawal is just enough to get the troop commitment back to what it was before the escalation then how much of a withdrawal is it? Hopefully the US public will not be bamboozled quite so easily as British hacks.
09.10.07 - 03:28pm
One may think it strange that a greater insight into the nature and effects of the War on Terror is available from one paragraph contained in a proclamation by a terrorist leader apparently hiding in a cave in Pakistan than from the daily speeches of the so-called Leader of the Free World.
09.09.07 - 09:22am
Rather unsurprisingly, the US President is not used to being challenged head on so there were annoyed looks and nervous laughs all round when South Korean President did just that yesterday.
09.08.07 - 11:20am
In many ways, international law and the international environment has not yet progressed much beyond the law of the jungle. However, as the examples of Pinochet and Kissinger demonstrate, once you are no longer the 900 pound gorilla in your own little jungle clearing you might one day find yourself in danger.
