Political phrases of convenience have a way of lingering or returning to haunt their originators in unexpected and inconvenient ways.It is a common enough experience,where public relations and politics combine to produce the semblances of policies.
MORE than 20 years ago, Senator Edward Kennedy slammed the Reagan government’s fanciful space-based weapons system proposal, the Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI), by calling it a “Star Wars” scheme.
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