Year: 2013

Robert Fisk: Once Washington made the Middle East tremble – now no one there takes it seriously Our present leaders are paying the price for the dishonesty of Bush and Blair

By Robert Fisk, The Independent Watershed. It’s the only word for it. Once Lebanon and Syria and Egypt trembled when Washington spoke. Now they laugh. It’s not just a question of what happened to the statesmen of the past. No one believed that Cameron was Churchill or that the silly […]