Dooming The Chagos Deal: The Diego Garcia Dilemma – OpEd

When remote islands start to interest chatterboxes in think tanks and bureaucrats in foreign ministries, we can only assume that some matters will be exaggerated over others.  With the Chagos Islands, there is one matter that is hard to exaggerate.  The plight of its indigenous population has been horrendous, treated with brutish contempt by the British and United States, banished from their homelands in the name of strategic interests.   As Britain and its strategic footprint passed into the shade of US power...