Monday, November 26, 2007

The Archbisop of Cant

Rowan Williams suggested American leadership had broken down: "We have only
one global hegemonic power. It is not accumulating territory: it is
trying to accumulate influence and control. That's not working."

He contrasted it unfavourably with how the British Empire governed
India. "It is one thing to take over a territory and then pour energy
and resources into administering it and normalising it. Rightly or
wrongly, that's what the British Empire did — in India, for example.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article2937068.ece