Auberon Waugh Quotes
Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them.
Waugh, Auberon. Will This Do?: The First Fifty Years of Auberon Waugh. Century, 1991.
So far as the Iraq government was concerned the important enemy were the minority Sunni Muslims who had dominated the Shiites before the American Invasion. For America the enemy was Al Qaeda and the terrorists as well as the Sunnis. We ended up fighting Sunnis and even Shiites as the definition of the enemy changed with time.
At the time the President denied that he had decided to invade Iraq. Skelton saw the “handwriting on the world.”
At the time, some House Republicans had taken an untenable and unpopular position and forced the government to shut down by not passing laws authorizing the expenditures. He had been asked his advice for President Obama who seemed to be winning this particular political squabble.
Auberon Alexander Waugh /ˈɔːbərən ˈwɔː/ was an English journalist and novelist, and eldest son of the novelist Evelyn Waugh. He was widely known by his nickname "Bron".
