Nick Cohen: Writing from London
The Observer 13 September 2105
When the people of the future look back at our time, there will be much wringing of hands at the west’s failure to stop the slaughter in Syria. Liberal writers will bewail our “guilt” and “shame” (bewailing is what we liberals are best at, after all). Readers will pat themselves on the back and say that they would never have behaved as we behaved; just as we look back on the Second World War and imagine we would never have collaborated if the Nazis had invaded.
Look at what the generation of the 2010s ignored as they admired their iPhones and took their selfies, they will say in shocked voices.
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