Is Russell Brown the best commentator writing in the New Zealand media at the moment? He is certainly the most versatile and prolific that I have come across. He’s written an excellent piece on the Middle East today.
The answer to his first question perhaps goes someway to explaining how the Bush administration has got away with so much:
“So if polls find that more than a third of Americans believe the 9/11 attacks to have been an inside job by their own government, and around half still believe Saddam Hussein had something to do with it, does that mean only about 15% have any idea at all?”
While his last encourages us to think about an alternative reality:
“consider this: the total financial cost of the Iraq war - taking into account the cost of servicing the debt that funded it - has been repeatedly estimated in excess of a trillion dollars.
Try and imagine the impact on hearts and minds of a trillion dollars worth of benign investment in the Middle East and the wider Islamic world: in business development, health care, education, NGOs, printing books. Might things have worked out better?”
Read the article in full.
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