Peter Hitchens on Irresponsible Statesmenship
Writing by abuhatem on Sunday, 31 of August , 2008 at 9:22 am
Peter Hitchens’ weekly column in today’s Daily Mail has a very good point on the so-called “new cold war” which deserves to be heeded:
And still they try to foment a new Cold War, though there’s no reason on earth for it. This is not just clueless, but actively dangerous. What would we do if we actually got one? Why, we’d lose it.
Yet baby politicians try to fuel careers by pretending, rather squeakily, to be Winston Churchill. First we have the teenage Tory leader fighting on the beaches in Georgia. Then we have the pubescent Foreign Secretary David Miliband rumbling empty threats in Ukraine.
Once we had people in politics who’d heard a bullet fly and seen what happens when that bullet strikes a human body. Now we have former TV PR men and propeller-headed policy wonks, who probably haven’t even been paintballing, playing at warmongering in a shaky world.
Category: International Relations
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