Politics of the schoolyard by Linda S. Heard

Whatever happened to good old fashioned diplomacy? If you listen to the rhetoric of some world leaders today, you can almost imagine them in short trousers exchanging insults over the ownership of a lollipop. Except in this not so brave New World Order there are people's lives and livelihoods at stake.

There are none more juvenile than that of the self-appointed leader of the free world with his "wanted dead or alive," "we'll smoke him out of his cave," "mission accomplished" and his proud labelling of Iran, Iraq and North Korea as an "axis of evil."