Airstrip One

Shifting Sands

So there's been a sharp rise in favour of war on Iraq?

Personally I think that the crucial fact was in the second paragraph: "The survey, which was carried out on Monday", the Monday after the weekend when there was a bomb in Bali.

Although the support will evaporate as memories fade, and people start asking just how important Bali really is to the UK, this is an indictment of the anti war movement. The simple fact is that the anti war movement is still not engaging with the electorate. We are still hearing about Iraqi orphans and American plans for oil pipelines.

The British people do not care for these arguments. By a strange coincidence they do not care for Blair's arguments, yet. However as long as the peace movement ignore their killer argument, that what happens in the middle east is not worth the bones of a Lincolnshire grenadier, they will still be vulnerable.

And the country will be worse for it.