But the reason why I posted this is because there was a particular paragraph that I found rahter funny. Also I just wanted to give both sides on this debate some intelligent humour to giggle at.
You just have got to love a smart-ass journalist!BBC wrote:Even the Azores have a symbolic significance - they are owned by Portugal, Britain's oldest ally.
The historically and literary minded will recall another event there involving the British and the Spanish, immortalised in Tennyson's poem, The Revenge.
The first line was familiar to generations of British schoolchildren:
"At Flores in the Azores, Sir Richard Grenville lay"
Inspiring story
Grenville was one of the mariners (pirates in the Spanish view) so loved by Queen Elizabeth I.
But he got caught by the Spanish fleet in the Azores and his little ship Revenge fought alone and to the death - a typically inspiring story of heroic British failure.
The poem is full of anti-Spanish sentiment ("Let us bang these dogs of Seville, the children of the devil").
One wonders if Mr Blair will recite it to Jose Maria Aznar as they look out across the waters and consider how alliances change.
) presented an ultimatum to the UN and another to Iraq.
