Mandelson, Wallstrom and projectionism

I wrote last week that the day of the aggressive war, by one state against another, was effectively over, or so it seemed anyway to me. That however many sabres might be rattled, the era of one country invading another with the prospect of annexation, has ended. While international peacekeeping operations might continue, I doubted we should see another Iraq in the future, still less a Kuwait or Falklands.

Time will prove me right (or, of course, wrong), but I was, last week, rather ha...