NATO: deaf, mute, and blind
Published: 19 August, 2008, 20:05
Peter Lavelle
Did the NATO presser on the South Ossetian crisis presented by the alliance’s head Jaap de Hoop Scheffer make any sense to you? I didn’t know whether to cry or laugh. It was an appalling exercise in doublethink and confusion.
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