"Since 1945, rather than occasionally deviating from the promotion of peace, democracy human rights and economic development in the Third World, British (and US) foreign policy has been systematically opposed to them, whether the Conservatives or Labour (or Republicans or Democrats) have been in power. This has had grave consequences for those on the receiving end of Western policies abroad." (Curtis, Zed Books, 1995, p.3)
Selecting freely from options pre-selected to serve the same interests is a choice but it is a meaningless one.
Today, Tony Blair and Tory leader Ian Duncan-Smith are as one in lining up with George Bush in pushing for "action" against Iraq. Blair insists that "Iraq poses a real and unique threat to the security of the region and the rest of the world." (Patrick Wintour, 'Blair: Saddam has to go', The Guardian, September 4, 2002)
This is the same Iraq that had its infrastructure systematically demolished by 88,500 tons of bombs - the equivalent of seven Hiroshima-size atomic bombs - during the Gulf War. The infrastructure has continued to collapse and decay, along with its suffering people, under a decade of murderous sanctions. We are expected to believe that the West's thousands of nuclear warheads were sufficient to deter the Soviet superpower for forty years, but not a smashed Third World nation.
Selecting freely from options pre-selected to serve the same interests is a choice but it is a meaningless one.
Today, Tony Blair and Tory leader Ian Duncan-Smith are as one in lining up with George Bush in pushing for "action" against Iraq. Blair insists that "Iraq poses a real and unique threat to the security of the region and the rest of the world." (Patrick Wintour, 'Blair: Saddam has to go', The Guardian, September 4, 2002)
This is the same Iraq that had its infrastructure systematically demolished by 88,500 tons of bombs - the equivalent of seven Hiroshima-size atomic bombs - during the Gulf War. The infrastructure has continued to collapse and decay, along with its suffering people, under a decade of murderous sanctions. We are expected to believe that the West's thousands of nuclear warheads were sufficient to deter the Soviet superpower for forty years, but not a smashed Third World nation.