ben,

Every attack on western or infidel interests is blamed on us. You know the drill.

We are less safe because of the “cowboy’s illegal immoral premptive war”. The cave in of Spain and the Phillipines shows the lack of will on the part of so called allies. Companies are leaving Iraq under threat of kidnapping. And no where is there a hint of righteous anger. Only abject appeasement.

Peter made an interesting analogy to the Phony War. The book, While England Slept will have to be rewritten – While the World Slept