Wednesday, September 13, 2006

With enemies like these ....

Today's Wall Street Journal editorial page (subs. req'd) provides a welcome boost to David Cameron -- by trotting out the usual Bush cult cliches to criticise him, especially his newly outlined need for British assertiveness in the "special relationship." From the heading -- "The new Tory leader sounds like John Kerry" -- to the essence of their problems with him:

On the day marking the worst terrorist atrocity in history, he even chided the U.S. for "stoop[ing] to illiberalism" by running a prison in Guantanamo, where the men who planned 9/11 were just transferred and where no human rights abuses have been found. This Tory wants a "a new emphasis on multilateralism" where the U.N. "confers the ultimate legitimacy." If these are the new Tories, we'll take the French. (As it happens, French presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy marked 9/11 in New York by saying, "Yes, I love the Americans.")

If they already know that the 9/11 planners are in Gitmo, one wonders what is the point of the trials that they support. Anyway, speaking of Sarkozy, here's the picture that could return to haunt his Presidential campaign next year. Cameron won't have such problems. And speaking of that picture, take a careful look at what's on the writing desk to the left of Bush: the famous "Uncle Sam" Army recruiting poster that meant nothing to Bush when he, unlike John Kerry, was dodging the draft.

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