Okay, I know that there are no claims as such. There were some interesting pictures on the telly news. Sorry I didn't watch them all day, but I had some vital audits to produce an annual report on, and others to plan. I know this is not earth shattering stuff, but like so many of us, I have a job which has little global significance. Ah well, it pays the bills.
The fall of Saddam Hussein is A Good Thing. Now is the time for the difficult part to begin. I hope that I can look back on this in a year's time and say, "Yes, it really was an unqualified success and I was wrong to oppose the war."
We - we being the International Community, whatever that is - have now to assist and empower the Iraqi population in building a civil society with a rule of good law. We have to ensure that the infrastructure of Iraq is rebuilt. We have to oppose any attempt by the fundamentalist warmongers of Washington to move on into Iran and Syria, we have to ensure that Israel is no longer supplied with the weapons to destroy Palestine.
And there are other issues from which we have averted our gaze. Frizzy Logic has raised the issue of the war in DR Congo which is barely getting a whisper.
Possibly I speak only for myself, but I know very little of what is happening in Afghanistan now, or Kosovo, or Bosnia. War makes good telly, but what comes afterwards is less interesting. As a student, a copy of a Labour Party Election Poster of 1945 adorned my wall - I now have the mug. It reads "Now Win the Peace". I hope to come back and read this in a year and say, "Yes, the peace was won."
