Iraq revisited

I was looking through some of my entries that I wrote to my class weblog about the war in Iraq. Here’s one from April 2003

I wonder how long it will be before the war on Iraq begins to fade from our memories. I guess it depends on when the world’s media decides that it is no longer newsworthy. At that point Baghdad will slip unnoticed off our radars too, just like many other temporary blips on our news landscape have done in the past. The news archives are littered with such stories. Famine in Africa to violence in Zimbabwe – the A to Z of once famous news stars discarded by the studios for the new stories on the block.

Little did I realise that Iraq would still be in the headlines two-and-a-half years later. In those days I used to tell my class that the allies would have a clear exit strategy. I’m not so sure now.