Poppy was finally forced – once again – to rescue the wayward son. My take in the Sunday Times:
The events of last week in America have an almost Shakespearean quality to them. It‚Äôs like some ghastly conflation of Richard II’s doom-laden ‘Down, down, I come’ and Richard III‚Äôs ‘winter of our discontent’. Richard II is how Bush would like the world to see him ‚Äî a king of noble motives brought low by injustice and fate. Richard III is … well, ask Karl Rove, the hunch in W’s back.
All of this is fascinating psychodrama, of course, and a humiliation for the dauphin. But it’s also good news. It’s a chance to leave behind the acrimony of the recent past and construct a new direction for Iraq and America. Poppy Bush can unite again with his son; Gates, Baker and Rice can try and put a realist finale to a neocon adventure; Democrats can unite again with Republicans … oh, who am I kidding? I don’t know what the future will bring. But if things look dark at the end of Act IV, there’s always Act V to come.
(White House Photo.)
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