"I don’t know much about foreign policy and its history, but what I have read is disconcerting. It is the ugly feeling I would prefer to suppress, could it be we are not the good guys, perhaps we are not the bad guys either, but much like the universe’s attitude to our pain and suffering, we may just be indifferent. Governments are not about compassion, empathy and moral decisions, they are businesses that hide behind a curtain saying “we are doing it all for you” and very occasionally a dog tugs at the covering and the odd minister hides comfortably in disgrace. If only when a politician said, “we need to face facts”, we then were faced with some facts. Instead it’s spiced propaganda and emotive, hollow gestures that come from whatever training camp has ensured that all frontline politicians intone and move in the same way that their gesture choreographer has told them would be presumed to be the most sincere."
Posted on: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:20:59 +0000
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