[quidnunc]

Busted wrote: As usual this American writer only likes Blair because of his support for the war. Nothing else matters does it.

Mark Steyn is a Canadian who writes a weekly column for The Telegraph [UK] and a bi-weekly column for The Spectator.

Blair is single-handedly keeping the UK in the War on Terror.

If it was up to the Tories and the Labour back bench, the Brits would cut and run like yellow dogs.

Because of this, Blair deserves the gratitude and support of all clear-thinking red-state Americans.

As for the rest, The Princess Diana grief-fest, the irrational vendetta against fox hunting and decline of the Church of England into irrelevance tells us Americans pretty m uch everything we need to know about the state of British society.

[Busted]

you just hate Britain don't you quidnunc.

Go on, admit it fella, get it off your chest.

You hate us don't you.

[tjwmason]

Blair is single-handedly keeping the UK in the War on Terror.
If it was up to the Tories and the Labour back bench, the Brits would cut and run like yellow dogs.

Based on what evidence do you say that? The Tories voted in their droves to send our boys to Afghanistan and to Iraq, the party still supports our presence in both places and our continued coalition with the U.S.

As for the rest, The Princess Diana grief-fest,

That was grotesque, but we've got over it by now; yet from everything I see she is still a marketable commodity in the U.S.

the irrational vendetta against fox hunting

That's Blair and his ilk (whom you have just been praising). To some of us banning hunting is a gross infringement of our ancient liberties, to most a total irrelevance.

decline of the Church of England into irrelevance

We have just been chatting about that in another place, and it is evident that you know less than nothing about the Church of England.

tells us Americans pretty m uch everything we need to know about the state of British society.

How about the presence of British troops being killed alongside American ones?

[jjbrouwer]

"As for the rest, The Princess Diana grief-fest, the irrational vendetta against fox hunting and decline of the Church of England into irrelevance tells us Americans pretty m uch everything we need to know about the state of British society."

I remember a similar grief-fest after John John tried to fly a plane with a broken leg and ended up in the bottom of the sea, along with his cokehead wife.

Why do you hate the little foxies?