Category Archives: War

I was talking to Dr Longley yesterday and the conversation, unavoidably, came round to the war. “I was on the fence”, he said, “until the bloody French pushed me off. Now I think that anything that gets rid of Saddam … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Q: Why does America need allies? A: So there is at least one army which won’t spoil the war by firing back. Continue reading →

from a parallel planet. Continue reading →

say that Mr Bush is not being multilateral? Continue reading →

or — suck on that, Ms Short: “Blair’s motivations are no less cynical than Bush’s. While European unity has been torn over the Iraqi campaign, there is strong consensus on the continent for the need to stop the vicious cycle … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Now suppose it had been an Iraqi bulldozer. Continue reading →

It may not be very grown up of me, or anything, but almost every night for the last six months, I have lain awake for a while at about 3 or 4 am worrying about the war and what will … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I keep wanting to stop writing about the war. But there is fresh horror almost every day. It is not the fact of war, or the collapse of the UN, and all the other consequences that were foreseeable, but the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Short form: Richard Perle, once known without affection as the Prince of Darkness, now the leading warhard/Likudnik ideologue, is the chairman of a Venture Capital trust which invests in the arms trade, sorry “defence equipment, and products useful in Homeland … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Barlow makes the best case for a strategy behind the war that I have ever read. I hear you laughing already. But it’s time that someone put the serious argument in favour of imperialism explicitly. Continue reading →