Post by Pink Betty on Sept 10, 2011 11:15:20 GMT
In decade after 9/11 our inadequate leaders plunged us into disastrous wars while ignoring the great economic challenges of our time
it is clear that those dreadful events changed the world in ways nobody could have imagined.
Looking back at two interminable wars, the waste of billions of pounds and thousands of lives, the wretched disappointment of the New Labour project and the wreckage of the financial system, you realise that after 9/11, the Western world took a gigantic wrong turn.
Understandably terrified by the threat of terrorism and obsessed by Islamist extremism, our politicians threw away billions, not just on misguided foreign adventures, but on Big Brother apparatus that massively expanded the reach of the state and threatened to smash the civil liberties at the heart of the British political tradition.
While China and India stirred in the East, the leaders of the West sent our young men and women into the deserts of Afghanistan and Iraq, arrogantly ignoring the lessons of history.
And as our finances headed deeper into the red and Europe’s banking system tottered towards the abyss, we bickered about dodgy dossiers and non-existent weapons, blind to the storm that would engulf us all.
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2035775/DOMINIC-SANDBROOK-In-decade-9-11-inadequate-leaders-plunged-disastrous-wars-ignoring-great-economic-challenges-time.html#ixzz1XXzVOveX
it is clear that those dreadful events changed the world in ways nobody could have imagined.
Looking back at two interminable wars, the waste of billions of pounds and thousands of lives, the wretched disappointment of the New Labour project and the wreckage of the financial system, you realise that after 9/11, the Western world took a gigantic wrong turn.
Understandably terrified by the threat of terrorism and obsessed by Islamist extremism, our politicians threw away billions, not just on misguided foreign adventures, but on Big Brother apparatus that massively expanded the reach of the state and threatened to smash the civil liberties at the heart of the British political tradition.
While China and India stirred in the East, the leaders of the West sent our young men and women into the deserts of Afghanistan and Iraq, arrogantly ignoring the lessons of history.
And as our finances headed deeper into the red and Europe’s banking system tottered towards the abyss, we bickered about dodgy dossiers and non-existent weapons, blind to the storm that would engulf us all.
Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2035775/DOMINIC-SANDBROOK-In-decade-9-11-inadequate-leaders-plunged-disastrous-wars-ignoring-great-economic-challenges-time.html#ixzz1XXzVOveX
