Letter: Pax Romana?
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: When Nato leaders launched their insane air campaign against Serbia, it seemed a clear case of the inmates taking over the lunatic asylum.
Now I realise that what has actually happened is something considerably more dangerous: it is a case of the sixth form taking over the school. If Tony Blair's naive idealism can only turn a nasty little case of tribal warfare into a major international catastrophe, let us be guided in future by a cynical pragmatist.
Principle, my father used to say, is like a tiger: a noble beast, but safest when stuffed and mounted in a glass case. In Kosovo, Nato has Blair's tiger by its tail. Will it ever be able to let go?
P A BEVAN
Witney, Oxfordshire
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