With fools like this its no wonder England is cooked.
Sorry, but it’s not right to apologise  (Peter Osborne/Telegraph)
The Prime Minister’s mea culpa over the conflict in Kashmir is neither welcome nor wise, says Peter Oborne .
There are a number of half-decent excuses for David Cameron’s sloppy and poorly informed remarks about the role played by the British Empire in creating the conditions for the contemporary conflict in Kashmir.
The Prime Minister was doubtless seeking to please a sceptical and perhaps hostile audience, angered by our military presence in Afghanistan. There was a smidgen of truth (though no more than that) in what he said. He was in the middle of a long and gruelling trip, and may have felt tired and jet-lagged.
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But it is the job of a British prime minister, as Cameron knows all too well, to stand up for his country when abroad. He could have pointed out that we gave Pakistan (and indeed the rest of the world) many splendid bequests: parliamentary democracy, superb irrigation systems, excellent roads, the rule of law, the English language and, last but not least, the game of cricket.
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Had he wished, he could have added that we contribute billions of pounds of aid to Pakistan and that we have been foremost in the list of countries that leapt in to help during last year’s terrible floods.
Instead, David Cameron played the politics of apology. It seems likely that he was attempting to ingratiate himself with an audience that was mainly composed of students. But this was the wrong approach. Apologies for events in the distant past are problematic, even when fully justified by incontestable facts.
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(Eddy Murphy  would diagnose this guy as one sorry mother f*#@r……)
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