The Sunday Times-In the Matrix, You Mess Up Foreign Policy

By Carne Ross

Published in The Sunday Times, 18 February 2007

Observing the disasters of Iraq and Afghanistan, former policy maker Carne Ross realised there was a malaise underlying government action. As in The Matrix, disoriented governments act on the basis of illusions. But in order to make good policy, we must try to see the world as it really is.

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