More Ancient Nick Cohen
"The Prime Minister gives every appearance of being willing to riskthe lives of British troops in a war he believed should not be fought.
His Foreign Secretary and Defence Secretary didn't believe it was
justified either. His generals have warned against it as noisily as
serving officers can. His diplomats and spies have found no excuse for
it. But if and when America tells Britain to send its soldiers into
Iraq, Tony Blair will comply with alacrity. What is there left to say
about such a man?"
ps Christ, here's more of the new Cohen, in which it appears he's fighting a vicious war with himself of three to four years previously.
In fact both these pieces of journalism show what's the problem with Cohen. He lacks any perspective. At all times whatever view isn't his is evil and incomprehensible. Above the Prime Minister is described as 'such a man' because he will wage war against Iraq. Now the 'liberal left' (who we learnt midweek are the natural constituency of Respect, so about 20,000 people), are slammed because they wished to avoid Bush's war against Iraq. Cohen tells us that supporting America if Aghanistan has 'pinned a large target sign on this country' [to Islamic terrorism]; now he attacks anyone who merely holds a much weaker position in this regard.
posted by Matthew @ 8/06/2005 06:05:00 PM
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