A beheading is repositioned as an independent act of evil rather than retribution for our own moral collapse Everything is opinion nothing is

A beheading is repositioned as an independent act of evil rather than retribution for our own moral collapse Everything is opinion; nothing is fact. This is the most insidious form of immorality.Caesar’s legend, eventually, was turned into a religious parable representing the betrayal of Christ. Brutus, as Judas, turned his back on the dictator-general, claiming to have “loved Rome longer and better” Bush is no Caesar. However, Blair cannot avoid what his rigorous intellect must be telling him about Iraq; only his faith is betraying him. Ultimately, that too, will falter and the Prime Minister will have to choose his country over his confederacy with the US President Blair’s career will become a minor consideration.

Finally, his faith will not be enough.Truth dies swiftly and easily in every war. But a battle can still be won if morality is the last casualty. There is always hope that what is good and right will prevail. In Iraq, however, it is no longer easy to know whose cause is more just and there is little reason to think our two nation coalition will succeed. When morality vanishes from the battlefield, a war is lost.James C Moore is the author of the just-released ‘Bush’s War for Reelection: Iraq, the White House, and the People’ and is the co-author of The ‘New York Times’ bestseller ‘Bush’s Brain: How Karl Rove Made George W Bush Presidential’.

Froth? On Friday the Prime Minister dismissed speculation about his future as froth. Yesterday, the Deputy Prime Minister speculated at length and on the record about Tony Blair’s future. One is that, as a contribution to the grown-up, open political culture that exists in this country, he offered his honest opinion of the state of play A likely story. For all his reputation as a loose verbal cannon, it is only his syntax that runs out of control.

He is careful about his subject matter.The other explanation is incendiary. It is that he is so worried that Blair will contaminate the inheritance of his successor that he is putting pressure on the Prime Minister to resign this summer. Most of what Prescott said in his interview might have been unexceptional if it had been written by a journalist observing the fevered plotting and calculating in Westminster last week. When the tectonic plates of politics “appear to be moving, everyone positions themselves for it”.This activity is not primarily occurring on the continental mass inhabited by Gordon Brown. The Chancellor has finally got it into the heads of his supporters that any clever business on their part is unhelpful to his ambitions.