Mr. Swaminathan, it is Sunday again!
I have been reading Swaminathan Aiyar on and off for some time now. What he has said here has forced me to write about the way he approaches this war issue.

Just because he is not worried about calling himself a cynic, does not mean he is not one. If you read the above article, you will understand how he has successfully evaded delivering an opinion on a critical issue just by sticking some mathematical and historical arguments together!

There isn't much you can dispute or argue about in the whole article. It is just his way of saying 'a table is a table'. You can't really deny anything. But when you think from the "why" angle of it - that is "why did he actually say all this"? - the best reason you would probably come up with is that "It was a Sunday"! Come every Sunday, he has to write one article. And this time, it happens to be this!

Let me take a vote here! Who doesn't know about Darwin's "Survival of fittest"? If you raise in "Me!" to the above question, then you have hell a lot to learn from that article of Swaminathan Aiyar.

So he goes..
"A victory will doubtless unearth evidence of Iraqi biological or chemical weapons, and ridicule will be heaped on Hans Blix, France, Germany and the UN Security Council. The new regime in Iraq will condemn Saddam as a mass murderer, and the world will nod agreement."

So does he feel that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction? Does he have an opinion on whether Iraq possesses those weapons actually matters? Before we think along these lines, the next lines follow..

...if the war goes badly for Bush, moral attitudes will be very different. Suppose thousands of US soldiers and Iraqi civilians are killed, and that terrorist reprisals on US cities with biological weapons kill thousands more. I suspect the US public will turn against Bush, and blame him for unwarranted deaths in an unwarranted military adventure..

Duh! Okay, so what's your point?

This is more and more Aristotle syllogism! When I start out in the morning for a long walk, I always know the following..

"It will rain or it will not rain"..

I think you need to tell something more if you think you deserve to get published!