By Craig Murray:
These are extremely dangerous times for the world. North Korea is
exposing the futility of deterrence theory and causing nuclear weapons
all over the world to be dusted down, at a time when a maverick outsider
in the White House has been captured by a bunch of Generals who make Dr
Strangelove look rational. Anybody who thinks sending occupying troops
into Afghanistan is ever going to work is clearly certifiable.
The febrile state of the American political system has resulted in a
peculiar McCarthyist witch-hunt against Russia, in which people who you
would presume must have some capacity for rational thought, such as the
editors of the Washington Post and New York Times, have abandoned that
rationality in favour of anti-Russian hysteria.
As a British diplomat I cultivated contacts with Ken Saro Wiwa and
his circle in Nigeria as they pushed against the tyrannical regime of
President Abacha and the environmental destruction of their region, most
notably by Shell. I cultivated Alexander Kwasniewski as a young
opposition leader who eventually defeated the great Lech Walesa. I
cultivated John Kufuor, opposition leader in Ghana, who like Kwasniewski
went on to be President. I cultivated Mohammed Solih’s people in
Uzbekistan. The later stages of all this are covered in my books The Catholic Orangemen of Togo and Murder in Samarkand.
