Tony Blair’s recent announcement that he will hence-forward account only to God for the Iraq war makes perfect sense. Every secular reason he has concocted has turned out to be the reverse of the truth: there were no weapons of mass destruction, we are less safe from terrorism, the Iraqi people do not want the British in their country.
Washington’s war is going a la carte. There is now not the slightest pretence that the scope of the United States’s regime-change wish list is in any way tethered to September 11