Unfortunately it is a fact of life in the so-called "developed countries" that we seem to think we have a right to tell other countries what to do.

Iraq is just one example. The US believed that its own interests would be served if Iraq became a democracy, and backed up this belief with troops.

Christian missionaries had the same idea when they spread themselves around the world in the nineteenth century, introducing an alien culture to gullible and hungry natives. The fact that most places they visited with their well-meaning but misguided "education" are now economic and political basket cases is the bitter aftermath of their interference.

And scarcely a day goes by without some champion moaning about China's trading practices, and whining to government that "something should be done" about that country's citizens' willingness to work for less money than our own featherbedded folk.

What, exactly, gives us the right to lecture other nations on the way they run their affairs? Or worse, actually run a campaign of harrassment and intimidation, as seems to be advocated in this article?