This week’s installment of Nick Cohen’s lone battle against the ‘anti-war’ movement is a cut-out-and-keep guide to dealing with all those various arguments put forward to justify doing nothing about Saddam.
You don’t have to be on the Left to worry about a US which isn’t satisfied with being the only superpower. America let the world know it wanted its dominion to increase when it began tearing up treaties. Opposing American hegemony is a respectable position, as long as you accept that the consequence is that Iraqis must remain under Saddam’s tyranny.