Simon Jenkins: We Tilt at Windmills as World War Looms
                   
huffingtonpost.com
24-Aug-2008
        

Is the world drifting towards a new global war? From this week the dominant super-power, America, will for three months pass through the valley of the shadow of democracy, a presidential election. This is always a moment of self-absorption and paranoia. Barack Obama and John McCain will not act as statesmen but as politicians. They will grandstand and look over their shoulders. Their eye will stray from the ball.... [read full story]                    

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