Milton lends a special horror, I think, to this image of a blind Fury, and I hope you will agree with those critics -- I didn't make this up - who find embedded in these lines something like a figurative intimation of castration.
Jack Straw, who was foreign secretary at the time of the invasion, told the BBC the new leader was not an MP at the time so had "greater freedom to say we didn't get it right, but I don't agree with his view".
