The world situation has never been more desperately untidy, and many of us find this deplorable but the kind of fact one has to live with. The untidiness was neatly encapsulated by the recent quarrel between Jeane Kirkpatrick and Alexander Haig.
One way to put it is that he was right but she wasn’t wrong. Or vice versa. The unity of the North Atlantic powers is important and in the end (as Margaret Thatcher knew during the weeks of the Secretary of State’s diplomatic shuttling) the U.S. was bound to come out on Britain’s side in the Falklands crisis.
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