Hugo Young
Hugo Young
Hugo John Smelter Youngwas a British journalist and columnist and senior political commentator at The Guardian...
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They're not trying to undo history but trying to say that these things are rather adornments and inconveniences which proclaim a different sort of country from the one of the turn of the century which we think this country should be,
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If these files are as full as people say, they are going to get more names and so it's become a large public issue.
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More voices are being heard questioning the tactics, the military operations that are going on, the bombing, and also behind that, wondering whether the issue is far more complicated than this military campaign makes it appear.
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We hear nothing at all about how successful the campaign has been elsewhere.
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But I also think what you see is a larger segment of society excluded from the mainstream, in effect, an underclass.
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The military campaign is perceived by most people to be unsuccessful, largely because the only stories we hear these days are about civilians getting killed,