[George W. Bush]

I was looking for your comments on Steyn's perspective on the French threat to the Blair government. No doubt they would like to unseat Tony if possible as the leading opponent of European federalism French-style but the risk of ending up with Tories in power instead of Blair seems to make it too uncertain an enterprise for the French.

Still, one has to credit Steyn's instinct that a lot of fish are being fried: NATO, EU dominance, oil control, weapons sales to oil states and others. It really has to be about more than just Blair being a threat to the plans of Brussels and France to dominate the United Europe. Steyn seems to sum all this up in the person of Blair. I would agree that, as much as it is about any single person, that would be Blair. But there's a lot more at stake here.

[MadIvan]

Blair is getting a first class education about why Britain has never gotten on with the French and the Germans, and why the EU is a gigantic swindle. They hope to keep us down. They want to strangle us with red tape, bureaucracy, taxation. They want to subsume our foreign policy. They want to chain our ability to stand with America, and so on.

I hope Blair is learning that he, and the anti-Axis of Weasels part of the EU, plus Eastern Europe are going to have to work together to freeze out France, Germany, and Belgium.

Regards, Ivan