That's what the BBC is asking today. Separately, the US, UK and Spain are meeting tomorrow in the mid-Atlantic in one last ditch effort to sort this thing out. And the Japanese ask this question: "Aren't the permanent members of the Security Council shirking their responsibility when they force the non-permanent members who rotate every two years to decide whether to authorize a war?"
These are interesting times in which to live. Textbook authors in generations to come will have a field day trying to explain the motivations of our time in a tidy 20 page chapter.
