Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:31:15 +0000 Leadership and morality are indivisible. That is why retired South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu has refused to share a platform with British Prime Minister Tony Blair who orchestrated the war against Iraq on account of non existent weapons of mass destruction. The good Archbishop says that Mr. Blair’s support for the Iraq war was “morally indefensible” and it would be “inappropriate” for him to appear alongside him. The moral of the story is that leaders must be morally uptight without any kind of blemish or hint of one. The Prelate was of the view that Mr. Blair’s decision to support the United States’ military invasion of Iraq, on the basis of unproven allegations of the existence in Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, was morally indefensible. The parallels with our own situation are uncanny. People with proven cases of criminality and unacceptable social conduct are in the forefront of […]
