Sheer, blinding hubris
'There is a sense that the tiny group of men manipulating the levers that direct the gargantuan machinery and weaponry of state are discovering that they can choose to ignore the public if they like, but they will surely be destroyed politically in the process. At the end of the day we are more than them; they derive their power from us. This is the golden rule of all Machiavellian 'realism', it is the fundamental lesson of realpolitik - you have to fool the people, you cannot let them see what you are really about. In their sheer, blinding hubris, Blair, Bush, Powell and Perle have simply forgotten this lesson.'

Sheer, blinding hubris
'There is a sense that the tiny group of men manipulating the levers that direct the gargantuan machinery and weaponry of state are discovering that they can choose to ignore the public if they like, but they will surely be destroyed politically in the process. At the end of the day we are more than them; they derive their power from us. This is the golden rule of all Machiavellian 'realism', it is the fundamental lesson of realpolitik - you have to fool the people, you cannot let them see what you are really about. In their sheer, blinding hubris, Blair, Bush, Powell and Perle have simply forgotten this lesson.'