Divide and Conquer has been a corner stone of the British empire. Ethics and morals did not always play as big a role as what could be profited. Victoria Geoghegen reminds me of Lords' Milner and Kitchener (death of 28000 woman and children during Anglo-Boer war in exchange for gold) as well as Tony Blair. Tony disregarded the Lancaster agreement and decided not to pay for land in Zimbabwe and cost thousands of people their livelihoods? He also cooked up a story about Irak having weapons of mass destruction? [Darren Murphy ? (Tony Blair’s political adviser) and part of Bell Pottinger]. Was Bell Pottinger behind this as well? From the British came the first salvos against Apartheid (good) and now against our democracy (bad); back to my statement of "Ethics and morals did not always play as big a role as what could be profited" Thanks for the article.