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Iraq Archive
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The delusion of national elections
Posted on 13/05/2011 | No CommentsThe fallout from last week’s referendum defeat for the Alternative Vote continues to settle, with comments from prominent Yes campaigners such as Jessica Asato and Peter Facey, as well as reports from the Dark Side (Tim Montgomerie and Dylan Sharpe), but aside from evaluating the... -
Iraq was not invaded because of the oil
Posted on 21/04/2011 | 1 CommentThe Independent is running a story based on secret memos that show that oil companies were interested in getting their hands on Iraqi oil, and that this was a reason for the invasion in 2003. A bit of naivety is useful here. Was oil really... -
Too much information
Posted on 26/01/2011 | No CommentsOne has to admire the elegance of Tony Blair’s argument in front of the Chilcot enquiry last Friday. He was recalled to the enquiry after his previous appearance a year ago in order to answer some additional questions, of which the main one related to... -
The 2003 question about Iran
Posted on 10/02/2010 | 1 CommentOne of Tony Blair’s better lines in his evidence to the Chilcot inquiry on 29 January was that one should not ask the 2003 question about Iraq – how much of a threat was Saddam Hussein then? – but rather the 2010 question: how much... -
A failure of strategy in Iraq
Posted on 29/01/2010 | 2 CommentsI have already reported in an earlier blog entry on the Chilcot inquiry about flaws that emerged in the strategy of using the threat of invasion to press Saddam Hussein to disarm, principally that the military forces deployed to back up this threat could not... -
Jack Straw at the Chilcot enquiry: a blunt instrument
Posted on 22/01/2010 | 2 CommentsJack Straw’s evidence at the Chilcot enquiry into the Iraq war yesterday, and the discussion that it led to of deadlines and resolutions, tells an interesting and important story about the conduct of international relations and the problems that it causes. (You can read the... -
The language of priorities
Posted on 05/01/2010 | No CommentsAneurin Bevan famously declared at a Labour party conference that “The language of priorities is the religion of socialism”. This will not be a blog post about socialism – I am going to write about Tony Blair instead – but about priorities. There has been... -
Justice and peace
Posted on 09/10/2009 | No CommentsThe Archbishop of Canterbury was forced to give a sermon today at St Paul’s cathedral at a service to mark the end of military operations in Iraq. You can read the sermon here. After readings from the Old and New Testaments, the archbishop Rowan Williams... -
What Barack Obama does next
Posted on 06/11/2008 | 2 CommentsThe newspapers and airwaves, having speculated and then reported on the outcome of the US election, are now speculating about what it means. The biggest significance will be for American domestic policy and race relations, which are really outside the topic of this blog, but... -
Lessons from five years of war in Iraq
Posted on 25/03/2008 | No CommentsFive 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 here, but I am not confident that the right lessons have been properly understood. The...
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