This article by the US ambassador to the Court of St James is incredible. Literally. And I can’t work out for the life of me what it’s doing in The New Statesman.
It is, I think, intended as a drug, or as the diplomatic equivalent of “Calm down, dears”. It’s so at odds with the reality we know that I glanced at the calendar to check if it was, after all, April 1st. But no, it is November 2nd, just under two months afer the anniversary of the second political event in my lifetime when everybody can remember where they were when it happened (the first was JFK’s assassination). And one of the events in a long chain that tells us that we reap what we sow and that the last thing we should do is sit back and trust that, due to America under Obama being “more flexible, nimble and creative in response to global threats”, the US and the world is now “more peaceful, more prosperous and more just”.
That would be very foolish indeed, Your Excellency.
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