As threats multiply and power fragments, the coming decade cries out for realistic idealism

Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian http://bit.ly/7G3G4M An Islamist terrorist caught trying to crash a plane over Detroit creates a flash of illusory clarity. The decade might have ended with another 9/11. So was George Bush right after all? Is the "global war on terror" the defining struggle of our times? In which case, what about climate change? And the fact that more than a billion human beings have to live on less than $1 a day? And nuclear proliferation; the threat of a worldwide pandemic; the crisis of globalised capitalism – not to mention the old-fashioned risk of war between ... Leer más