Reflections of a 'cheap warmaker'

UK Telegraph ^ | Filed: 01/12/2005) | By Danny Kruger

[kyperman]

In the days of Saddam Hussein, the Church of England's representative in the Middle East used to make the 12-hour trip every few weeks. Iraq was, he thought at the time, as bad as could be: stunted and cowed by tyranny......

What have we done? This week, Colin Powell's former chief of staff accused Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld et al of "daydreaming", and perhaps he is right. It is easy to say, looking back, that the principle was good but the practice was bungled......

[kyperman]

Actually a pretty balanced piece as a whole, pretty good read.

[kyperman]

I re-read it, it's not so balanced, in fact...I might have to burn it....

[logic]

I was just about to flame you.....

[DJ Taylor]

I think, but I'm not sure, that the writer was trying to say that if one must do ugly things in order to keep world peace, it's better to do it in someone else's country than it is to wait until you have to do those ugly things in your own country.

If that's not what he was trying to say, it should have been.