Five years on from the unleashing of shock and awe over Baghdad, what have we learned? I’ve written an analysis for the Federal Union news pages, which you can read […]
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It is now five years since the start of the war in Iraq, five years in which the toll in money, in lives and in so much else has mounted
Reflections on the revolution in Iraq Read More »
Amid all the debate about what the British government did and did not know about Iraqi WMD in the run-up to war in Iraq, a thought occurs to me. Let’s
A thought experiment on Iraq Read More »
Tony Blair’s speech on the role of the UK armed forces last week deserves some attention on this blog. (Read the speech here.) A lot of what he said was
I am not going to say anything about the death penalty in the case of Saddam Hussein – plenty of other people have already done so, and no-one better than
The death of Saddam Hussein Read More »
An epitaph for the Blair era was published today by Chatham House, the respected and independent foreign policy think tank. “Blair’s foreign policy and its possible successor(s)”, written by outgoing
The report from the Iraq Study Group that was published last week (read it here) bookends a rather inglorious period in American foreign policy. The era of policy-making by the
Iraq: staying or going Read More »
By Richard Laming Published in The Observer, 26 November 2006 There is a closer south east Asian parallel than Vietnam for the unfolding disaster in Iraq. (‘Time for your Vietnam history
When will they ever learn? Read More »
Britain is no longer a sovereign state: it’s official. Summoned to give evidence to the United States Congress on the progress of the war in Iraq, Tony Blair jumps to
The analysis of the Middle East crisis set out in Tony Blair’s speech in Los Angeles seems to me to be confused, distracted, even almost deranged. Read the speech here,
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