Whitehouse leaves UK off the map On the Whitehouse website there is a section called ask the Whitehouse where people get to question all sorts of people from the Whitehouse. The latest person to undergo this is National Security Council Director for Iraq Brett McGurk, presumably because the President has just relaunched his Iraq policy. The debate that he hosts shows that the new Whitehouse policy is more nuanced than is shown to be the case in the media with increase emphasis on reconstruction. I have to say I'm still not convinced as I don't think that they can guarantee the necessary level of security in order for the civil society to be reconstructed on the basis of such a small number of troops.

Then one thing struck me. Here is a very senior US government official with responsibilty for Iraq policy and he talks about all sorts of things but he does not mention Tony Blair, Great Britain, the UK or even at a stretch Margaret Beckett. Judging by this we might as well not be there. The problem is we also bear the responsibity for this disaster.  ¶ 12:39 am