It appears that Mr Blair either never read Shakespeare’s play, “Macbeth”, or has long forgotten it
ISLAMABAD: British journalist Robert Fisk was quoted to have said recently: “Was Blair’s mission as Middle-East Envoy supposed to wash the blood from his hands after the catastrophe of the Bush-Blair invasion of Iraq?” Well said, Mr Fisk.
It appears that Mr Blair either never read Shakespeare’s play, “Macbeth”, or has long forgotten it. I wish he could be reminded of Lady Macbeth’s sleepwalking scene (Scene 1, Act 5), where she is being watched by a lady in waiting and a doctor. Troubled by guilt at her instigation of the murders of the king and of Banquo, she says: “Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, Oh, Oh!” Mr Blair, not all the perfumes of Arabia will sweeten your hands, nor will the “damned spot” ever be washed out. Who would have thought that the “old country” would “have so much blood in it”?
Asghar Qadir
Published in The Express Tribune, June 1st, 2015.
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