Bribes, bombs and blind eyes: The West’s war on principle

There is something tragic about the present moment, a theatre of contradictions staged around the attack on Iran, so brazen that one is tempted to admire the choreography before confronting the wreckage it produces. At its centre stands Donald Trump, declaring with unflinching confidence that the war has been won, that it is being won, that it requires help to be won, and that it requires no help at all to destroy a nuclear programme he assured the world he had already destroyed last year. Language, once a vessel of meaning, now serves as a revolving door through which claims enter only to negate themselves on exit. Hovering above this spectacle is the memory of an earlier scene, when Gulf […]