The 25-years war
August 1st, 2007
Tom Ricks was depressing on NPR’s Talk of the Nation at lunchtime today. He was asked to compare the first Gulf War with the second. I’ll paraphrase his response. “The first Gulf War wasn’t really a war. It was a blip. A four-day ground assault. I think in 100 years historians will look back and see it as the first battle of America’s 25-year war in Iraq.”
The English Gordon Brown
August 1st, 2007
From yesterday’s Washington Post:
[Representative Tom] Lantos said he joked with Brown that he had the good fortune to be coming to power with new leaders in Europe — German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy — who are more congenial to Britain and the United States than their predecessors. “He burst out laughing, and he indicated, in an inimitable English way, that he agrees with me on his luck,” Lantos said.
Sarkozy apparently made the same mistake, declaring that Brown was “mon ami anglais”.
Maybe they’ll all figure it out eventually.