Yeats and the War

February 12, 2007
Editorial Observer
What W. B. Yeats’s ‘Second Coming’ Really Says About the Iraq War
By ADAM COHEN

The Brookings Institution, the prominent Washington research organization, just released a report on the Iraq war entitled “Things Fall Apart.” When Representative Jim McDermott, Democrat of Washington, took to the House floor last year to demand that President Bush present a plan for Iraq, he called his speech “The Center Cannot Hold.” Blogs are full of the observation that “the blood-dimmed tide is loosed” in Iraq these days. More