Today’s spotlight article by Jonathan Steele and Dahr Jamail is certainly compelling. Having read some of Jamail’s dispatches from Iraq, I was not surprised.
What did strike me as strange, though, is that just last Friday, I read a rant by Steele about Blair’s “good war” in Kosovo – which, just to be clear, Steele supported then, and supports now. Steele was in full-froth mode, glorifying the ICG advocacy of Albanian separatism and declaring that not rewarding the KLA would be a “victory for Milosevic.” So forgive me if I take his “antiwar” sentiments with a grain of salt.
Steele – just like Georgie Anne Geyer and Anthony Lewis, to name just two notable pundits – opposes aggression in Iraq, not aggression as such. It would be interesting to find out what reasoning they can offer for such a position.