Between meddling and benign neglect there is accountability
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1754363,00.html
Barbara Toner
Saturday April 15, 2006
The Guardian
Leaving well alone is a fine rule to live by but lord, the torment.
While it avoids unhelpful meddling on the one hand, it excuses neglect
on the other. So this week, as the world tore out its hair over Iran
going nuclear, several thousand French winemakers sobbed into their
ruined claret and Gordon Brown wobbled on the moral high ground.
There was probably more hair-tearing in Whitehall than the White House.
I certainly didn't sleep easier having seen the carefully labelled
illustration of a B2 stealth bomber dropping a Big Blu massive ordnance
penetrator bomb down the arrow helpfully built into the concrete bunker
containing Iran's nuclear facilities and blasting a wall off. And nor,
I'm guessing, did Jack Straw.
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