When Elijah was approached by the wicked king Ahab, Ahab said 'Is it you, you troubler of Israel?' and Elijah answered, 'It isn't me who has troubled Israel; it is you, and your father's house."

Of course people always accuse critics of being anti-this or anti-that. People have accused me of being anti-American because I have spoken out against SOME policies of SOME American leaders, but that is ridiculous; as an Englishman I am not being anti-English if I say that Tony Blair has done some things which I consider dangerous and foolish.

Of course, where there is a history of prejudice, and especially of prejudice-based violence, there are people who want to criticize any person, organization, country or whatever. They must be very careful to make it clear their remarks are based on the facts of the case, not on such an underlying prejudice.

But to say that, because some people have been and still are prejudiced, therefore nobody can ever mount a serious argument for saying that a country or its leaders are going the wrong way, is to collapse all moral discourse into a stinking postmodern heap.