By Peter Mandelson's curious "logic" there are really three forces at play in the Iraq debate: multilateralists (good), unilateralists (bad) and multipolarists (irrelevant). The "real" struggle is between the good multilateralist -- Blair and Powell -- and the bad unilateralists, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Cheney. The foolish multipolarists should line up behind the good multilateralists to defeat the bad unis. Oh yes, and buy this used car from me before some crook tries to sell it to you.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,911187,00.html Perhaps Mandelson has been staring too long at one of those Escher drawings where people climb up and up and up an optical illusion staircase. The illusion is indeed clever. But anyone who insisted on constructing a building on those architectonic principles should be laughed out of the room. Three-dimensional space cannot be relied on to obey the "principles" established by two-dimensional representational perspective. If Mandelson believes such extravagant cleverness, he is a fool. If he doesn't, he is a charlatan. Tom Walker 604 255 4812
