‘War on terrorism’ threatens aid budgets

POLITICS as much as any inexact science is open to fads.

But while policies and principles can be switched around to suit the prevailing fashion of the moment, the one thing that cannot be changed is the pot of money available to pay for them.

Usually what happens is that those put in charge of implementing the latest big thing to hit the political scene look around to see what budget line they can divert to fund it.