ON NOT BEING A DOVE

In the Times, an exasperated David Aaronovitch takes on the anti-war camp in general, and fellow-columnist Matthew Parris in particular:

In February 2003 Matthew wrote that he would be against a war in Iraq even if there was WMD, even if it was authorised by the UN, even if a liberated Iraq was then stable, and concluded: “I’m against war because it will antagonise moderate Arab opinion.” And the Iraqi people? To be massacred, shredded, gassed, beheaded, suppressed, starved, immiserated, terrorised and tortured because all of that would be less bad than antagonising moderate Arab opinion. An Iraqi democrat stands in front of an armchair anti-interventionist, and is invisible.