But as James Rubin has just said on BBC, the USA can no longer think it is immune from the outside world, (militarily, politically, or economically)
And Tony Blair, has just loyally stepped into the vacuum while Bush is preoccupied, making strong statements, telephoning Schroeder and Jospin, and Putin. Probably approving the attacks on Kabul, but with a sub-agenda, how to play off the USA and Europe, and contain the USA's wilder excesses. There will be a price for this.
Chris Burford
London