*Ø* Blogmanac | Betrayed
From the UK
"If, as Stanley Kubrick claimed, large states often behave like gangsters while small states often behave like prostitutes, then we may at least console ourselves that we have descended to a point where we are more whore than racketeer. But the sum effect is to leave us in a world where no one will listen to us. They know we have voluntarily surrendered our wish for an independent voice in foreign affairs. Worse, we have surrendered it to a country which is actively seeking to undermine international organisations and international law. Lacking the gun, we are to be only the mouth. The deal is this: America provides the firepower; we provide the bullshit."

["When I try to understand what's going on every morning, I tell myself there's been a military coup." - American diplomat.]

Read David Hare's full article at Guardian.co.uk