By the Editor – If the previous two articles raised a level of alarm, this offering will take it a notch higher for the reader. The Chilcot Report emphasised the critical need for reasoned criticism and speaking truth unto power. The author, the former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia during the first Gulf War, turns a harsh spotlight on the United States’ affairs abroad and, as he sees it, the inappropriate use of the military lever in preference to diplomacy and long standing treaties and agreements. This was delivered as an address to the Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs…
