Melanie Philips, I’m afraid, continues to show signs of becoming Britain’s answer to David Horowitz. Her latest salvo culminates in this absurdity:
Annapolis is America’s Munich — and Israel is the new Czechoslovakia.
Previously Philips, unsurprisingly, lamented John Howard’s defeat in Australia. For myself, I rather think that 12 years in office is long enough and, absent an entirely hapless opposition, it’s important to turf incumbents out of office, regardless of which party they happen to be. (It is not a good sign for Gordon Brown that Labour will have been in power for 13 years when the next election is held).
Still, none of that matters. Philips concedes that even though there were plenty of excellent reasons to vote against Howard, loyalty to the Bush Doctrine must trump each and every one of them:
Yes I know that the election result is said to have been about domestic issues rather than foreign policy.
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