The astounding shallowness of Britain's Foreign Secretary
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With his article in the Guardian today arguing that the ‘war on terror’ was a mistake, Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Miliband displays a deeply alarming level of shallowness and ignorance. While there is indeed a valid criticism to be made of the phrase ‘war on terror’ for the simple reason that terror is merely a mechanism and that therefore the phrase is absurd, Miliband’s error lies in the deeper point he is making that the military approach to dealing with global Islamist terrorism is wrong. He reveals in this a profound failure to understand the nature of this global threat. He thinks it’s all about local 'grievances’ and therefore can be dealt with by negotiation, compromise and arresting people and bringing them to justice rather than waging war upon them. Although his argument is a general one, he...
Thursday, 15 January 2009
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