It is difficult to argue with anything in this article. That it is written by a self-styled “Leftie” is a surprise.
>It has not been fashionable or comfortable, as a Leftie, being on the side of Bush and Blair, but I have always believed we were doing the right thing.<
A leftie on the side of Bush and Blair..she lost me there. j/k. History in the long run, will be kind to Bush and Blair.
Behavior can be changed by force and/or fear. That particular place has always been kind of nasty, since Kiplimg wrote:
“Before the old Peshawar gate
where Kurd and Kaffir meet
The Governor of Kabul dealt
the justice of the street.
And that was strait as running noose and swift as plunging knife.
Though he who held the longer purse might hold the lomger life.”