Quoth Doug, > He said the U.S. might attack Iraq without the UK. Was it a blunder, > or did he really mean it?
I think it was the PNAC mob's knickers showing through. In their ideal world, Uncle Sam would go this alone. Any sharing of the hard yards might lead to pressure for complicated compromises later on, and Wolfowitz's simple (nay, simplistic) plan of unqualified world domination would seem, to those too naively arrogant to realise America has frittered away the 'soft' (Nye's term?) component of its power - two centuries worth of brownie points as well as a tide of apre-911 sympathy carelessly binned in the space of half an 'administration'. It's only Colin Powell and 60 per cent of the electorate who wants those ghastly foreigners sticking their oars in, anyway. Or so it looks from a distance ... Cheers, Rob.
