Other examples: Franco's Spain - splitting Germany post WWII - the splitting up of Kurdistan - pre-Independence America...

So don't give me the do-gooders' slogans. You are nobody's saviour, and certainly not Iraq's or Afghanistan's. You have not been appointed World Policeman by anybody. Stop pretending. You are in those countries for your own reasons and not for anybody's good. And if you benevolently think otherwise, I'm telling you : It doesn't work that way.

But that STILL does not excuse the Guardian...