Nick Cohen: still smoking the opium-pipe of the "liberal-interventionists"
Assad's massacres in Syria make one wish for a benign world government that could prevent the horrors, or even for divine intervention. But neither will happen. Some on the left respond to the omission by "demanding" that the USA and other big powers act like a benign world government, or deity. They are smoking the "liberal-interventionist" opium pipe. Many of them, including Nick Cohen of the Observer , did that over Iraq. Reality trips them up. Aghast, Cohen in his Observer column of 28 May 2012 quoted an un-named kindred spirit: "If you want to know what price a great man will sell his...