This is the British Moment
From the Henry "Scoop" Jackson Society:A funny thing happened at Thursday night's launch of the Henry Jackson Society's new foreign policy manifesto, the British Moment. A room full of two hundred of ‘the great and the good’ cheered to the rafters at the prospect of a huge increase in both the scope and frequency of British ethical intervention abroad over the coming decade. And this at a time when the nay-saying, doom and gloom-mongering and general negativity that has been heaped on the whole democracy-promotion movement in this country has never been greater (negativity, incidentally, that is largely based on the misapprehension that events in Iraq constitute the totality of that agenda rather than a small subsection of it). So what could possibly explain the dichotomy between the perceived atmosphere and Thursday night's reality?
Er...could it be that it is a rather biased sample?
posted by Matthew @ 8/06/2006 04:17:00 PM
Comments: 0
