Realpolitik and reality
Francis Sedgemore, Sunday 20 February 2011

Realpolitik 2004
Reality 2011
What kind of world is this? The noughties realpolitik of Libya rapprochement made a perverse kind of sense at the time. Today, in retrospect, it makes me want to vomit, in much the same way as the fact of Henry Kissinger’s continued existence.
As the old saying goes, there is a special place in hell, etc., etc.,…
There is also no justice in this world, save for what you appropriate for yourself and your brothers and sisters, by whatever means necessary.
Feed the writer! 
