The dangers of 'game-changing'
Pat Kane
August 17, 2006 12:01 PM
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/pat_kane/2006/08/the_dangers_of_gamechanging.html
War contains many realities, but one of them is men playing games. At
the more strategic end of reportage about American foreign policy, a
certain metaphor keeps emerging from the mouths of White House
politicians and sympathetic policy-gurus alike.
"The big strategic chess move is to try to split Syria off from Iran
and bring Damascus back into the Sunni Arab fold," wrote the New York
Times' Thomas Friedman, doyen of imperial commentators, a few weeks
ago. "That is the game-changer."
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