You wish. It is true that the world is suddenly a slightly safer place this morning than if the other guy had won. But the problems faced around the world in terms of human rights abuses and especially "religious" intolerance continue just as before.
Watching "The Wright Stuff" on the TV this morning (that's right: I do have too much time on my hands) the estimable Yasmin Alibi Brown reminded us of Britain's hypocrisy in selling arms to Saudi Arabia despite their disgraceful record on human rights, especially their treatment of women. They showed a clip of Cameron defending his position, saying that nations around the world had a right to defend themselves, and that it was legitimate to sell them the means to do just that. But Matthew Wright, God bless, wondered how he squared his own support of gay marriage with the fact that homosexuality is a capital offence in that awful country.
Our defence industry supports 300,000 jobs; indeed, we remain one of the world's biggest arms producers. What of all those jobs if we were to start getting all moral about who we sold our arms to? Yasmin was ready for this. The same argument was used in the early 19th century to justify slavery, upon which thousands of jobs depended. But eventually it was decided that they might be better employed in less heinous occupations, and slavery was abolished.
The world changes agonisingly slowly at times, but it does change. And I suspect that the fewer republicans there are in the White House over the next few decades, the better the world, and America, will be. Well done Barack! You're not the greatest, but you are definitely a big improvement on Mr Mitt!
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