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Economic sanctions are a coward's war. They do not work but are a way in which rich elites feel they are "committed" to some distant struggle.
Two dictators face two disasters, one is in China, the other in Burma. One is an earthquake, the other a flood. Tens of thousands are dead and millions at risk. Being dictatorial, both regimes responded in a manner heavy with the politics of sovereignty. In one case that helps people, in the other it kills them.
Mission accomplished? The Iraq war did more than anything to alienate the Atlantic powers from the rest of the world.
While Rome burned, Nero put on fancy dress, stood on a tower and played his lyre, writes Simon Jenkins.
Economic sanctions are a coward's war. They do not work but are a way in which rich elites feel they are "committed" to some distant struggle.
Two dictators face two disasters, one is in China, the other in Burma. One is an earthquake, the other a flood. Tens of thousands are dead and millions at risk. Being dictatorial, both regimes responded in a manner heavy with the politics of sovereignty. In one case that helps people, in the other it kills them.
Mission accomplished? The Iraq war did more than anything to alienate the Atlantic powers from the rest of the world.
While Rome burned, Nero put on fancy dress, stood on a tower and played his lyre, writes Simon Jenkins.
