helicon@eircom.net (helicon) wrote> Is it a case of "the more powerful, the less honourable"? It was said that (infamously) the English broke the Treaty of Limerick before the ink had dried on the parchment. Nothing much changes. Expediency Rules OK - and to hell with honour.

I hate to cite cliches -- except that cliches are cliches for a reason.

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Rupa