Yeats and the War

[lsanderson]

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

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[lollardfish.livejournal.com]

Best lit crit ever!

[mplsvala.livejournal.com]

Good piece. Thanks for posting.