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Mick Hume of Spiked! has little time for the foreign policy posturing of Brown, Miliband and Cameron (Obama and McCain get short shrift, too):
"Whether the Western wannabe statesmen’s standing will benefit from their diplomatic stunts remains to be seen. What seems certain, however, is that they are playing a dangerous game that risks alienating Russia and inflaming and internationalising a regional conflict. In current circumstances there seems no objective reason for any ‘new Cold War’ with such a weak and conservative power as Russia. Yet our leaders have lost sight of such broader strategic considerations in pursuit of petty political gain and propaganda stunts (...)
"There is no grand plot or plan involved. It is more a case of a purposeless, out-of-control political elite blundering into somebody else’s crisis in search of a cheap political victory. There are unlikely to be any winners when such a phoney war meets the real world."
Also worth reading in Spiked this week, a look at the "Glorious myth" of the AIDS epidemic so ghoulishly predicted for British heterosexuals throughout the 80s and early 90s. The epidemic didn't emerge, for reasons predicted by the column's author back in 1987. His warning set him against the government, medical and AIDS activist consensus, but time has proved its sense. Any sign of contrition or mea culpa in the memoirs of the activists who did so well from their doom-laden forecasts? What do you think?
Wonder if we'll be hearing the same story two decades from now, from activists promoting today's scientific consensus on climate change?
