The Times Online has an editorial that challenges Britians next Prime Minister to change the nations approach to the Middle East and American foreign Policy. Podhertz's editorial The Case for Bombing Iran should concern all Americans. The fact that Cheneny seems to have quite the warm spot for such a policy should scare the rest of the world as well.
Why we must break with the American crazies by Anatole Kaletsky
the editorial quotes ElBaradei:
Mohamed ElBaradei, the head of the UN nuclear inspectorate, came out with a strikingly undiplomatic public statement, giving warning that "crazies in Washington" now seemed to be planning to repeat the Iraq disaster by attacking Iran.
Kaletsky goes on to say that Britain should re-examine it's role in the Mid- East and develop a new approach.
The list of misjudgments and mistakes could go on and on, but my point should by now be obvious. The question Mr Brown must now ask himself is whether he can still allow himself to remain publicly allied to a US Administration that is so recklessly belligerent in its diplomatic conduct, so demonstrably incompetent in warfare and so irresponsibly dangerous to the peace of the world.
As the anarchy in Iraq goes from bad to worse and Washington’s only answer is to expand the circle of its aggression, clichés about the special relationship are no longer sufficient. Mr Brown must decide whether to remain a silent but active partner in this madness, whether to retreat quietly like the Italians, Poles and Spaniards or to develop a third and genuinely courageous option. This is to positively forestall further disasters by breaking publicly with the Bush Administration and trying to develop a genuine European alternative to the suicidal American-led policies, not only in Iraq, but also in Israel, Palestine and Iran.
The US Congress is tied up by just enough Republican Zombie bots and misguided Blue Dog democrats to prevent impeachment or other strong measures to stop the administrations aggression. Hopefully, a saner more independent Britain and European Union could ratchet up the pressure on the Bush administration by developing a strong alternative to the Bush Mideast policy. Before 2001, I never thought I would want to see a strong Europe standing up to and openly defying the major foreign policies of the United States. Now I think it maybe the only way to avoid decades of very destructive wars. We could see terrorism at a scale we have never seen before as million become radicalized after yet another Bush led attack. Hopefully, there is another way.