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...Janan Ganesh is the FT’s political columnist Illustration by James Ferguson...
...President George W Bush’s military adventurism is repeatedly lambasted, but only as the most obvious target in a catalogue of western failures....
...Though based on W. Somerset Maugham’s play about a crime of passion in steamy colonial Malaysia, The Letter will be more readily identified with William Wyler’s 1940 film version starring Bette Davis....
...As he clarified later in inviting Sgt James Crowley and Prof Gates to a beer in the White House, cooler heads on both sides should have prevailed....
...Sergeant Plod was even questioning a Mr Blair about it the other day. I bet only deceased Indian steel magnates and defrocked colonial media moguls are eventually implicated....
...I am going to try not to feel sorry for George W. Bush this year....
...On Tuesday, a sergeant died of wounds suffered in a bomb attack on October 17, bringing the death toll for the US military to 2,000....
...George W. Bush addressed issues neither in Africa–the atrocities in Darfur and Congo, as well as the scourge of Aids went unspoken–nor in Latin America....
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