What would you do this morning if you were a Greek? Would you agree to your government cutting public-sector jobs, pay and pensions?
It’s for governments, not journalists, to guard public secrets and there’s no national jeopardy in WikiLeaks’ revelations, argues <b>Simon Jenkins</b>
Mission accomplished? The Iraq war did more than anything to alienate the Atlantic powers from the rest of the world.
Our way of life is threatened not by an al-Qaeda nutcase, but politicians like former US vice-president Dick Cheney in thrall to a fantasy war.
The reason for invading Afghanistan seemed like a good idea at the time. Simon Jenkins reports.
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/ 5 December 2008
America seems much in need of Roosevelt’s maxim to stop fearing fear itself. Virtually all comment on the Mumbai massacre has mentioned 9/11.
Moscow has to take some of the blame. But it is the West’s policy of liberal interventionism that has fuelled war in Georgia.
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.
You don’t have to be cynical to do foreign policy, but it helps. A sigh of relief rose over the West’s chancelleries on Monday as it became clear that the Chinese earthquake was big — big enough to trump Burma’s cyclone. To add to the relief, Beijing was behaving better than it has over past calamities.