Iain Macwhirter: An occasion when doing something would be worse than doing nothing

CLAUSEWITZ may not quite have said that war is the continuation of politics by other means, but the essential truth of that observation remains. War is always political, never more so than today as we stand on the brink of what could be a confrontation with Russia on a global scale – a world war by other means. Wars happen when weak politicians back themselves into a corner, and world wars start when they honour unthinking political alliances. . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16150124.Iain_Macwhirter__An_occasion_when_doing_something_would_be_worse_than_doing_nothing/?ref=rss