Over There

Our staunchest ally, historically and militarily but by no means politically anymore, reals from successive waves of 'terrorism related incidents' as pissed off arabs, some al qaeda 'inspired' others just plain old pissed off iraqis and arabist nationalist exert pressure on the newly minted Brown primacy.

The timing of all this couldn't come at a more opportune time for the PM and his parties flagging support for the 'WiI' and his nations now open hostility toward the Bush administration and it's failed policies.

I think Mr. Brown will be looking for a way out very soon, afterall one of the main pillars of the Bush doctrine was to fight them over there so we would not have to fight them over here. For the UK, much like the WMD, al qaeda-Iraq cooperation and mushroom clouds, fighting them over there rings just a little hollow when the headlines every day elude to homegrown and foreign instigated UK terror plots on the homeland.

Couple this with the increased destabilization of Southern Iraq, Basra in particular, and you have what could appear to be a coordinated attack on the British psyche and it's already waining willingness to continue to participate in this brazen sham of a war.

The fact that the real perpetrators of the crimes against civilization, that got this stupidity started in the first place, remain at-large in the hinterlands of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border has not been lost on the general populace much to the chagrin of the Serious People who through subterfuge, mendacity and propaganda lead us into a war without end with an enemy without a face in a place infested with old antagonisms and resentments we were fully ignorant of. Al qaeda took full advantage of that and reaped the wild wind. We really, really wanted bin Laden and would have condoned any costs and actions in that pursuit, what we got was Hussein and his crippled country, a civil war and a breeding ground for pan-arab hostility.

And the Bush administration wonders why nobody believes in them any more when, it's staggeringly obvious.