ninety minute nationalist

Norm Geras has a post up about this article by Jonathan Steele. I don't have much to add , Mr Geras has Mr Steele by the lapels and pushed right up against the wall. However, there is one thing - near the end of the post Mr Geras once more puts forward the idea that at least part of the reason for the invasion was the democratisation of Iraq. I don't agree with this, there is plenty of evidence in the behaviour of the coalition both before they went in and since that democracy was not a prime aim; Jonathan Steele making ludicrous and unprincipled arguments doesn't change that.