Watching our country's leaders lay wreaths at the Cenotaph on Sunday I felt that at that time, and in that place, they had understood the potential consequences of the decisions that they take on a day to day basis.
Decisions about who we fight, how our troops are supplied, how they are treated when they come home.
But the fact remains that whilst politics can only sometimes lead to a "successful" outcome of war, war is always caused by the failure of politics.
Does Brown understand the gravity when he's not standing with the mass of dignitaries on live TV with Elgar's Nimrod floating around him? Does he understand that a failure in international politics lead us down the road to Iraq? But most importantly, a failure in UK politics and a battered attempt at a security agenda took us the rest of the way there?
If I ever get to meet the man, I think I'll ask him.
Tuesday, 11 November 2008
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