Most people assume that States are creatures driven by ruthless self-interest.
He will have us believe that the governments of the most powerful countries in the world are run by men and women motivated by the highest ideals, a thirst for justice, and the longing to alleviate human suffering. Just about every claim the West s propagandists made to justify NATO s seizure of Kosovo has been shown to be a lie. Confronted by such unpalatable facts, the humanitarian terrorists can respond in one of two ways. They can say, first, that they knew all along that the stories of Serb atrocities were made up. They were a necessary lie, they would argue, concocted for the purpose of justifying NATO s attack to a public ignorant of geopolitical intricacies.