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The Middle East: graveyard for the West's legitimacy

While some argue that respect comes through the successful use of power, the practical consequences of the West's moral decline are apparent in Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon

By Max Hastings  /  THE GUARDIAN , LONDON

The point is well made. But they wielded influence in a fashion that determined US policy, in an era when Western command of the moral high ground was hardly disputed in any civilized society.

Somehow, though surely not under the current US president or British prime minister, this is what we must regain.

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