Cause and Effect

"Red" Ken Livingstone made some very good comments about the whole Middle East situation last week. You can read them here. As he says, you don't have to agree with the suicide bombers to understand the underlying causes for the current state of world affairs. We can't undo much of that damage, but we can let it dictate how we wade into parts of the world in the future - sadly, the way we're treating African debt relief suggests the west has learned nothing...