But Britain remains attracted to something else, and so unwilling to engage in voice.

I hear you and I know that you would want me to be strong, but right now, I am being sucked down, surrounded and suffocated by these raging emotional waters, craving to cleanse my soul, trying to emerge on a firm footing one more time, to keep on fighting and flourishing just as you taught me.

Both elements of the American dream have now lost something of their appeal. The Iraq engagement proved to be built on deception.