Seizing defeat from the jaws of victory
The losers in the debate over liberating Iraq are like Jason in the hockey mask who keep coming back to life. They cannot admit they were wrong.
"Again and again, in statements and debates in the House of Commons, Mr Blair took his stand on two things. One was the fact that, because of the UN inspections process and Resolution 1441, the burden lay with Saddam to comply with inspection over WMD, not with the allies to prove their existence. The other was that the threat in the world today is not superpower rivalry, but chaos, and that this chaos can be brought about by the combination of well-armed rogue states with terrorist non-state actors, such as al-Qa'eda. The former requires enforcement, said Mr Blair, the latter pre-emption.
"He was right. We went to war, and we won. How nice for the BBC if New Labour spin now allows it to seize defeat from the jaws of victory. How dreadful for the nation."
The losers in the debate over liberating Iraq are like Jason in the hockey mask who keep coming back to life. They cannot admit they were wrong.
"Again and again, in statements and debates in the House of Commons, Mr Blair took his stand on two things. One was the fact that, because of the UN inspections process and Resolution 1441, the burden lay with Saddam to comply with inspection over WMD, not with the allies to prove their existence. The other was that the threat in the world today is not superpower rivalry, but chaos, and that this chaos can be brought about by the combination of well-armed rogue states with terrorist non-state actors, such as al-Qa'eda. The former requires enforcement, said Mr Blair, the latter pre-emption.
"He was right. We went to war, and we won. How nice for the BBC if New Labour spin now allows it to seize defeat from the jaws of victory. How dreadful for the nation."
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