We Know Our Place

Statesmanship is the art of the possible, and not all the moral compasses and international laws in the world have made it possible for His Majesty's Government to suspend more than a token few of Britain's arms exports to the Righteous State. Legal action on behalf of the Palestinian Untermenschen has revealed the Government's concern lest withdrawal of wog-bombing wherewithal should have a "profound impact on international peace and security" by causing irritation to the World Cop. In the face of such existential risk to all that is true, decent and democratic, the possibility that wog-bombing wherewithal might be used to bomb wogs indiscreetly was deemed a relatively minor consideration, because no sensible and moderate client state of Washington can afford to forget which of its fellow client states is the one nearest the oil.