Sure they have, Ellenpoly, I agree. That still does not make the Guardian's action right. As in "two wrongs...etc". An amoral left-winger is no different from an amoral right-winger (or whatever-winger). There are politics, and there is morality. The latter should remain high, irrespective of how low the politicians stoop with their excuses for expediency.

Old Guy, looking in the history books and around me I see that in every case a foreign power intervened (benevolently or not) to stabilise a country, or to put someone in government, the result has been instability. Examples abound: The state of Israel and the instability in the Middle East; creating the ficticious Yugoslavia from a hotch-potch of nations - as soon as Tito died the lid came off.

True change can only ever come from within a nation, never from outside.