Hubristic Saddam Hussein
From Anthony G. Brown Sir: Paul Robinson's otherwise insightful piece (Sword of honour', 26 July) on the Confederacy's having visited calamity on itself through hubris reached a very predictable end: Mr Bush waged war on Iraq from the same sense of Southern honour insulted, and could meet the same awful fate.
That the President is a recently transplanted Connecticut Yankee, and that no Texan regards himor herself as a Southerner (the South is to our east, and as alien to us as is the North), should perhaps have given Robinson pause. Is it not more likely that Saddam Hussein's own prickly and thuggish hubris drove him to refuse to admit that his WMD programmes had collapsed in poverty, distrust and isolation, and consequently drew him into a calamitous war with a much mightier enemy?
Anthony Brown
Dallas, Texas, USA
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