Reporting the Iraq war like a divorce lawyer
Words like ‘democracy’ are invariably quotation marked. And the death of Saddam’s sons will have ‘consequences’.
As if their lives didn’t.
Arab opinion is pictured as being so arch that it can’t see the benefits. And in my book regime change is a good term imputing no guilt or lack of humanity on behalf of ordinary Arabs, but plenty of guilt and brutality on the part of Saddam’s regime.
If the Ba’athist world wants to make martyrs out of his ugly sons, that’s their problem, not the Americans’.
Like Jacob Marley, the regime was dead to begin with. They were ugly in life and ugly in death. If they are to have any redemption it will be beyond the grave, not in coming back from the dead.
The day of reckoning has come for them, as it has for Iraq.
Richard Dowling.
Coote Street.
Mountrath,
Co Laois
