You, the reader of New Internationalist, are clever. I am not. I am one of the 99.9 per cent of people who are a bit stupid and don’t know much about world politics. I’m also one of the 8.4 per cent of people whose heart is in the right place, so I try to learn what I can.
For example, until recently I knew very little about President Obama’s drone attacks on Pakistan*, and so my opposition was based on history. Because you and I both know that the US has ‘previous’ when it comes to bomb-dropping errors. In any situation where the US is killing people in another country, you can say with 100-per-cent certainty that it is behaving illegally, immorally and incorrectly. It’s a statistical inevitability and an uncomfortable truth.
