THE ALLIES: There's been a lot of generally sensible guffawing at Kerry's
promise to win over the French and Russians in the war on terror. But
there's been less attention paid to how Bush has dealt with the U.S.'s most
critical ally, Britain. The answer is: terribly. Every time I talk to
pro-war British friends, they point out how they feel unconsulted, abused,
and generally dissed by this administration. They remember Rumsfeld's
spectacularly stupid remark before the war that the Brits were dispensable;
and Bush's own radioactive personality in Europe means that any British
leader who wants to support him must also consider political suicide. Look
at what is happening now. A simple redeployment of a few hundred British
troops to relieve American troops in Baghdad while they prepare to tackle
Falluja has led to parliamentary uproar. (Let's just leave aside the
question of why we have so few troops that the Brits are needed to keep
what's left of order in the capital city.) The lesson is clear: Bush has
made any future military alliance with even the Brits a near-impossibility.
The British people won't allow it. The Tories are now anti-Bush; almost the
entire Labour party is anti-Bush; the Liberal Democrats are pathologically
anti-Bush. And this is the success story of Bush's diplomacy! Again, the
worst thing about this is that it undermines our ability to wage this war in
future. When you lose the Brits and half your own country in a vital war,
you deserve to be fired as president. I'm sorry, but it's time the pro-war
camp began to deal with this.

(Source: Arch-conservative Andrew Sullivan, new member of the "Reality-Based
Community.")

www.andrewsullivan.com

yojimbo wrote:
THE ALLIES: There's been a lot of generally sensible guffawing at Kerry's
promise to win over the French and Russians in the war on terror. But
there's been less attention paid to how Bush has dealt with the U.S.'s most
critical ally, Britain. The answer is: terribly. Every time I talk to
pro-war British friends, they point out how they feel unconsulted, abused,
and generally dissed by this administration. They remember Rumsfeld's
spectacularly stupid remark before the war that the Brits were dispensable;
and Bush's own radioactive personality in Europe means that any British
leader who wants to support him must also consider political suicide. Look
at what is happening now. A simple redeployment of a few hundred British
troops to relieve American troops in Baghdad while they prepare to tackle
Falluja has led to parliamentary uproar. (Let's just leave aside the
question of why we have so few troops that the Brits are needed to keep
what's left of order in the capital city.) The lesson is clear: Bush has
made any future military alliance with even the Brits a near-impossibility.
The British people won't allow it. The Tories are now anti-Bush; almost the
entire Labour party is anti-Bush; the Liberal Democrats are pathologically
anti-Bush. And this is the success story of Bush's diplomacy! Again, the
worst thing about this is that it undermines our ability to wage this war in
future. When you lose the Brits and half your own country in a vital war,
you deserve to be fired as president. I'm sorry, but it's time the pro-war
camp began to deal with this.

(Source: Arch-conservative Andrew Sullivan, new member of the "Reality-Based
Community.")

www.andrewsullivan.com





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