Agamemnon's dream. The former editor of the Telegraph, Charles Moore, has written a long and important
opinion piece on Iraq.... what is needed above all is consistent political and military willpower, publicly demonstrated and explained. Without this, the media will create the future. Mr Bush and Mr Blair need serious speeches about why it matters so much to get it right and what getting it right means.
They will, from now till polling day, be tempted to slide away from what is happening in Iraq, but they should, in fact, do the opposite, challenging their opponents to back them.
On the Iliad theme, I hope Moore does not prove to be a Cassandra. Correction: I hope he is, since her prophesies, though fated never to be believed, always came true, and Moore is prophesying eventual victory.
So Bush is Agamemnon and Blair is Nestor. Saddam had better be Priam (despite the libel to the old king) so that Uday can be Paris. But who would be Hector? Iphigenia? Helen?
posted by Natalie at 10:06 PM
