Above: Mars the god of war (Roman statuette in a provincial museum – you can’t use a flash in the museum, so apologies for the quality of the picture).
Listening to the Today Programme on the way to work this morning, the Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett wailed with exasperation because the interviewer kept “trying to drag Iraq” into a discussion about the Middle East. From her own PR point of view this response seems stupid and deliberately insulting to the Today audience (she was basically saying “don’t bother me with these questions”).
British involvement in Iraq is the most important issue the government is responsible for and the Foreign Secretary needs to pay attention to the subject and answer questions when asked (it’s what we employ her to do). Is the government hoping we are going to forget about Iraq? They started that war, and they don’t seem to have any clear idea on how to finish it (or, very troubling thought, the Labour hierarchy know it can't be finished until Tony Blair is out of the way, so in the meantime they just intend to stall all discussions on the subject).
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