gravedigger buries dead

So the man told off to chair the latest Iraq enquiry just happens to be the same fellow who wrote Blair’s “doctrine of international community speech” in Chicago in spring 1999:

The military historian Lawrence Freedman was invited, according to Kampfner, to craft, within two days, "a philosophy that Blair could call his own", complete with benchmarks as to when countries should intervene in others' affairs. Freedman obliged, thinking he was one of several people being consulted, and was amazed to read a speech that relied almost entirely on his proposals. Blair had announced "a new doctrine of international community" and proclaimed "we are all internationalists now".

There’s a nice circularity there, don’t we think? Let the assistant gravedigger bury the dead.

Comments

[Richard J]

Author of the official history of the Falklands War, IIRC, which suggests that he's viewed as a safe pair of hands. I don't recall any 'now it can be told' stories coming out at the time of its publication a few years back.