Uganda: The Geography of Power and the Price of Ignorance

Uganda: The Geography of Power and the Price of Ignorance

[Independent (Kampala)] Comment -- When commenting on the 1980-1988 Iraq-Iran war, Henry Kissinger once remarked that it was "a pity both sides can't lose". It was a chilling distillation of a worldview in which distant conflicts are not tragedies to be resolved, but instruments to be managed. Alongside Zbigniew Brzezinski, Kissinger helped shape a half-century of American foreign policy that treated regions like the Middle East, Southeast Asia,…

The geography of power and the price of ignorance

COMMENT | ANDREW PI BESI | When commenting on the 1980–1988 Iraq–Iran war, Henry Kissinger once remarked that it was “a pity both sides can’t lose”. It was a chilling distillation of a worldview in which distant conflicts are not tragedies to be resolved, but instruments to be managed. Alongside Zbigniew Brzezinski, Kissinger helped shape a half-century of American foreign policy that treated regions like the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Afr…