Miscalculation
: “Only Saddam has been wicked,” says Matthew Parris in the Times of London. “Everybody else has screwed up.”
He says that the way the world entered this war, or didn’t, is the result of a series of diplomatic miscalculations that will lead to much diplomatic damage:
…the Governments of America, Britain, Germany, Russia and France would not have got themselves into the various positions they find themselves in today if they had known the likely outcome of their actions. For within the space of but a few months Nato is perhaps fatally wounded; the EU is bleeding internally; the British Government
