There are some who are arguing that the fiasco surrounding the execution of Saddam Hussein - the taunts, the mockery, the seeming dignity of the man himself - could not have been a mere accident, a failure on the part of the Iraqi government to manage the moment.
No one, the thesis goes, could be so inept as to just let this happen - or to prevent it from occurring - and that therefore this was a deliberate act in order to heighten sectarian discord, to cause the country to become so steeped in bloodshed that withdrawal of foreign forces became an inevitability. Or if not that then some machination to achieve the end of one of the innumerable forces that wish to gain supremacy in Iraq, or even the wider Middle East.
This may not be plausible - and indeed mere incompetence is as rational an explanation as any other in the circumstances - but is no less implausible than the rumours that are bound to emerge soon that Saddam Hussein is alive and well and hiding in Libya.
There is no gain in feasting on wild fantasy, in some ways an insult to the individual men and women of the land who are suffering and dying daily. There may have been a planned cause for why it happened, but if there was I know it not.
What I do know is that a terrible moment in the narrative of this world in which we hope to live has just become all the more appalling.
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